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. It can change from boot to boot, 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, then perhaps you should consider BS, solaris, whatever, or not upgrade Linux. (If you want to complain about this, complain to Linus himself) I repeat: if I use names like sda2 in my fstab, my machine will boot one day, and not the next. It is not reliable for every machine. It is static only for machines with static hardware config.
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. Of course I do care what my partition is. I just don't care about what /dev/sdaXY UNSTABLE name it gets. I care about the STABLE name it has. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)