Re: [Feature Request] UUID in fstab.
"S.P.Zeidler" <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:58:24 +0000
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Thus wrote Utkarsh Anand ([email protected]): > I don't know for sure, but has there been any discussion on using UUID instead > of partition names (like /dev/wd0a) for entries in /etc/fstab by default? > Device names might change for people in due course of time (say, Adding a new > HDD or SSD) and in such situations, it's a good idea to use UUID instead. Using UUIDs is a -terrible- idea when you can use e.g.: NAME=ftp-base /ftp ffs rw,log,noexec,nodev,noatime,nocoredump 1 2 instead. We 'just' need to start supporting gpt in sysinst. UUIDs are seriously not human friendly. As soon as you cannot cut&paste, they are downright human hostile, especially if you have a lot of an element that use them. regards, spz