[mythtv-users] partition names

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mark,

Saturday, October 31, 2015, 10:33:53 PM, you wrote:





>> On 31 Oct 2015, at 8:32 am, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hoi Daryl,
>> 
>> Friday, October 30, 2015, 10:24:06 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings Mythizens, In the same way that I have my storage drives named
>>> /media/storage and /media/storage2, is it OK to name my OS partitions
>>> /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6, and my swap /sda5?
>> 
>>> I've set up a second OS partition and copied my original "fstab to the
>>> second partition's /etc and now realize that the UUID is incorrect. So when
>>> I correct that can I safely give names to other UUID's?
>> 
>> Oh and in fstab you can use the literal name or LABEL=<the disklabel> or
>> UUID=<the UUID> you can find the actual names with the blkid command
>> see: man fstab
>> 
>> Tot mails,
>> Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>> 
>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>> 
>> De lerende Mens
>> 
>> _______________________________________________

> I'm quite confused as to what the intent / reasoning would be for
> this? Naming the OS partition as a device would seem to be obscuring
> it. Surely a name like 'Ubuntu Myth OS' would be more useful. Not
> sure it's a good habit to be using device names when not dealing
> with the hardware (ie when using the file system mount point).

> I couldn't see how /dev/sda6 was at all similar convention to /mnt/storage.
> _______________________________________________

I also at first was confused. But as I on second view understood he
needed to know how to name them in fstab. Most distribution on
installation use the UUID, but if you don't know how to find it for a
new partition ...


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

De lerende Mens