Re: [Feature Request] UUID in fstab.

"S.P.Zeidler" <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:29:39 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Utkarsh,

Thus wrote Utkarsh Anand ([email protected]):

> Oh! I'd have loved it, if it were the case, at all. Alas, linux also 
> has a command line utility blkid(8) to easily get the UUIDs:
> https://linux.die.net/man/8/blkid

Yes, so? the issue is not "what is the UUID of that new partition"
but having to add 40 of them to an fstab without the ability to use
cut & paste or the letters <>|, because the <censored> IDRAC console
did not allow either.
This is not a hypothetical example, this is Real Life (tm).

regards,
	spz