From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PnVvb-0003iM-ES for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:47:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 027D6E08D4; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:45:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C0FE08D4 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:45:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb10 with SMTP id 10so734773gwb.40 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:45:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=y7POm67OdlZxUaEihlK6fS28b+2GqTqZbw0kL2HI8RY=; b=RgzmsR7aJEfFRyAdz8Zu5eq9t9J5MFJ55X4be8/dgklo/ASNJWc8h9twvThnbNseqp 1cX8plY6TZShVJOw1Q7ivp7sZEn0hMwzug4cwafQs74kiJ/AzWgNdlezqO5wwsfKWhOQ j3dxO/2WHUzCvZ/k62oqNkxvZKcpsf6mVO6uQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vobx2qzf9g2rgQdep2i1riUg98NMfbJTGhaNq8HMP/zsR7XkayhbLjJmoAXt0prAwc bCpaIF16c7y2KlhraiCn/XRgAPUv7sdui3OWIyJBsr5oNcYweTrc/Yx/bflHolgLThGd 1DkADC78mHFEqNuNcm70nMnkGJEMXELsbhcIc= Received: by 10.151.78.13 with SMTP id f13mr2747961ybl.135.1297341956178; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w24sm25262ybk.9.2011.02.10.04.45.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:45:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D53DE01.8090708@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:45:53 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110201 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook References: <20110210120055.6e7288c2@digimed.co.uk> <4D53DA90.3040602@gmail.com> <20110210124236.BE663174C@data.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <20110210124236.BE663174C@data.antarean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 821e32b7ceeda7fa6dc80dfeba8f5e11 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:31:12 Dale wrote: > =20 >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> =20 >>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenstr=F6m wrote: >>> =20 >>>> If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use >>>> >>>> :r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some >>>> :additional >>>> >>>> information, but the rest is just vi(m) magic. >>>> =20 >>> None of which makes fstab any more readable. UUIDs are the worst opti= on >>> in this respect, although they do allow disks to be moved around. >>> Filesystem labels are the best option for readability and not only do >>> they allow disks to be moved but also individual filesystems. >>> =20 >> When I switched mine, I looked into the UUID option but never could >> figure out how to tell which is what. I have /boot, /, /home, /portag= e >> and /var but how do you get it to tell you the number for say /home? = Of >> all the stuff I read, I never did find that. >> >> I agree tho, using the plain labels are easier to understand. Even I >> got that right. ;-) >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> =20 > Dale, > > Thanks to the email from Petri Rosenstr=F6m earlier, I finally figured = it out. > If you know the current /dev/.... for it, use: > blkid /dev/.... > That will give you the UUID :) > > -- > Joost > > =20 Kewl !! That works. Wonder if I should try this way out. See if I can=20 mess this up. o_O Dale :-) :-)