Re: [Feature Request] UUID in fstab.

Utkarsh Anand <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Mar 2018 06:04:01 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>

30.03.2018, 00:16, "Martin Husemann" <[email protected]>:
> Which UUID?
While most of the modern systems are already using it, you don't even know about it. Here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
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> Also check fstab(5):
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>      If the first field is of the form "NAME=<value>" then all the dk(4) wedge
>      partitions are searched for one that has a wedge name equal to <value>
>      and the device corresponding to it is selected.
It'd be nice if you could leave your obsession for man command and re-read the email. I'm asking for using it by default (i.e. on newly installed systems).
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> Martin