On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:25:38PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-10-29 12:32, Ruben Safir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:26:09AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Why would I care where is sda2 mounted? Why would I care if it is the second or the third partition in the first or the fourth disk? I just want the partition that I reserve for home to be mounted on /home and not on /usr.
You probably don't care. For the rest of use, we want to know what out hardware is doing.
A) we know what our hard is
And I do.
B) we want to know what it is doing
And I do.
C) we want it to do what the to do and expect it to do so without obfucation
And I do.
I don't care where sda2 is mounted, because the name sda2 IS NOT GUARANTEED stable.
Actually it is. sda2 will always be sda2 until you make a change in the bios. It is the first device on your sata chain.
It can change from boot to boot,
if you say so...
and this is the kernel way of doing things since several years. The Linux kernel is not static, it evolves fast, and you have to adapt to it, not the kernel to you. If you can not stand this situation,
dmesg says sda BTW - why are you rebooting the system?
then perhaps you should consider BS, solaris, whatever, or not upgrade Linux.
(If you want to complain about this, complain to Linus himself)
I WILL talk to him about this and other things the next time I see him.
I repeat: if I use names like sda2 in my fstab, my machine will boot one day, and not the next.
Not if I was running it.
It is not reliable for every machine. It is static only for machines with static hardware config.
Yeah, so let me get this straight. You hardware is not in a static configuration so you break the software?
If I wasn't reading this, I wouldn't believe it was possible that computer users and developers would say such idiot things like, "I don't care what my partition is, or what my hard drive geometry is"
I consider that it is you who is behaving idiotically in this respect.
No, but this is actually getting boring. When something this stupid is being defended, it is time to shrug your shoulders and feel bad for those that believe such crap. There is nothing that can be done for someone who doesn't want to know what his hardware configuration is prior to booting the OS.
Of course I do care what my partition is. I just don't care about what /dev/sdaXY UNSTABLE name it gets.
It has been stable now for 2 decades.
I care about the STABLE name it has.
Well, try fixing your hardware... then because sda is assigned by the bios. [ 1.621444] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488281250 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB) [ 1.621511] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 1.621514] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 1.621543] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 1.667459] sda: sda1 sda2 sda4 [ 1.667893] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk as for the new terminalogy, that is entirly meaningless. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org