On 2007/08/24 14:18 (GMT-0400) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
Friday 2007-08-24 at 13:44 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
A related issue is optional mounts. When exist upwards of 30 lines in fstab, with labels or worse for partition identification, it's a new and large headache to figure out what to type to mount partitions that are noauto in fstab. When using devicenames of 4-5 characters this was minor thing to remember.
Could you give a sample? I don't understand the issue (I do have long fstab files)
Consider all these fstab entries that might cause the exact same partition to mount to the exact same location (note that in Fedora 7, the first of the 5 is invalid-not using libata for PATA is not an option): /dev/hda21 /disks/hda/fedora ext3 noauto,acl 0 0 LABEL=S12A-21fedora /disks/hda/fedora ext3 noauto,acl 0 0 UUID=7e303340-8ab6-4839-847e-260b9717c4a6 /disks/hda/fedora ext3 noauto,acl 0 0 ID=ata-ST3120814A_5LS0EPFV-part21 /disks/hda/fedora ext3 noauto,acl 0 0 PATH=pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-0:0-part21 /disks/hda/fedora ext3 noauto,acl 0 0
From CLI: 1-The old way, how fast could you mount the partition you remember is #21 on the first PATA disk? (e.g. mount /dev/hda21) 2-The libata way, how fast can you mount the partition you remember is #21 on the first PATA disk? How would you do it?
In addition, which one of those 5 possible entries to you prefer to have in your own (long) fstab(s)? -- " It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org