Tom Stiller <tomstiller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> P.S. Does anyone know if you can mount something explicitly via its
>> disk label, rather than via its device number? This is something that
>> Linux, for example, sup****ts. I.e., on Linux, you can specify
>>
>> LABEL=/MyDrive /mnt ext3fs defaults 1 2
>>
>> in /etc/fstab, where the "LABEL=/MyDrive" part substitutes for
>> /dev/disk3s2, or whatever.
>>
>> When using external drives, who knows what the device name will be
>> tomorrow, so this is a very useful feature.
>
> Disk labels are not unique and it's possible to mount two volumes with
> the same name.
Linux has the same issue, of course, but it just copes with it. It
may not cope with it in a perfectly elegant manner, but as long as you
don't put yourself in this situation, then you don't end up with any
problems.
(One problem with this approach is that if you your disk label becomes
corrupt for some reason, then you don't have an explicit record of
what partition your filesystem was on, and as Unix partitions can
overlap, you can end up in an annoying situation where you don't know
which partition you should be trying to repair. But it's still a nice
feature to have when you need it.)
> However, the newer GUID scheme is unique and I think I read, but
> can't recall where, that the GUID could be used to specify the
> device in a mount command.
Thanks for the pointer. I'll look into it.
|>oug
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