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[Les Mikesell]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> It's that sort of crap (shuffling positions) that made me dispair of
>> the decision to make all Linux hard drives /dev/sd<something>.
> 
> that's why i prefer to use LVM, where the mount info is based on the
> names i gave the logical volumes:
> 
> $ mount
> ...
> /dev/mapper/f8-opt on /opt type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/mapper/f8-var on /var type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/mapper/f8-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/mapper/f8-usrlocal on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
> ...
> 
>   and even if you're not using LVM, you can always still mount by
> filesystem volume name; i just consider the "named" mount info a nice
> bonus of using LVM.

Does this suffer from the same problem as filesystem labels if you 
create identical names on two machines and subsequently move the volumes 
to a single machine?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com