Re: [Feature Request] UUID in fstab.
Utkarsh Anand <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:34:41 +0530
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30.03.2018, 14:28, "S.P.Zeidler" <[email protected]>: > 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 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