On Friday 06 August 2021 10:01:25 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2021 Fri, 6 Aug 14:44:26 +0200 > > phiebie@xxxxxxx scripsit: > > Hi dep, > > > > Am 05.Aug.2021 um 20:59 schrieben Sie: > > > the time it gets here I hope I'll have cooked up a good fstab for > > > it -- the existing drives will have to move down by one letter, so > > > my sda4 will become sdb4 b4 I can use it. And so on. > > > > When you're about adjusting the fstab: don't use the old > > driveletters anymore, a pita sometimes, take partition-UUID's, they > > stay the same whatever you shuffle drives around. > > And the UUIDs will give you a hard time when you duplicate drives and > boot with two identical UUIDs. e.g.: > > dd if=/sda of=/dev/sdb > > Remove /dev/sda - it's the old one, replace it by /dev/sdb. Put the > old drive on the shelfe for backup. > > Some time later you need data from the old drive (will never happen, > for sure) and connect it to your system with a sata-usb-adapter or > plug it into a free sata port of your mainboard. Reboot or mount the > drive ... fun guaranteed :) > > That said, uuids are kind of coll, but they get in my way all the > time, just like the "new" aka GNOMEish naming schemes for e.g. eth0. > > Nik > Just the tip of the iceberg problem here with UUID's, I've had them be made invalid by changing the brand of sata/usb3 adapter because the first one failed, they can and will change if you adjust anything on that drive. I didn't lose a byte recovering from that because I was mounting it in fstab by my fav method. I much prefer to use the LABEL=name, with a unique name for that partition, it seems immune to everything but a partition table erasing full format. > > Regards. > > ____________________________________________________ > > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Web mail archive available at > > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trini > >tydesktop.org Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
