[CentOS] SDA and HDA

Wed Aug 18 20:17:11 UTC 2010
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, John R Pierce wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] SDA and HDA
>
>  On 08/18/10 11:56 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> If LVM supports them, partition labels are the way to go.
>>
>> /dev/?da?? get screwed up if you create or destroy partitions. Whereas
>> labels don't care about the actual device name in question.
>
> and plug that disk with label 'root' into another system that has label
> 'root' and watch it not be to mount the root file system when it boots.
>
> btdt.

Thanks for pointing that anomaly out John. I'll keep that in 
mind for future installations.

The full root partition label name is:

LABEL=Fedora-12-root

and there is only one entry in /etc/fstab to mount the root 
partition by that label name.

Personally I can't see myself moving hard drives around 
from machine to machine, as I only have 1 main machine 
(tower case with 3.5" drives) and a few laptops using 2.5" 
drives.

And for my Centos root partition, it will have a root label 
something like:

LABEL=Centos-5-root   /      ext3       defaults     1 1

Again there will only be one entry in /etc/fstab for a 
particular active root partition.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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