[mythtv-users] Reviving a myth system after hardware failure on /var

[marcus hall]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 09:51:44AM +0000, UB40D wrote:
> Wait a minute---I'm obviously missing something crucial here. With
> human-chosen labels, who guarantees uniqueness? What if my old drive and my
> new restored drive both have a partition with "LABEL=boot", another with
> "LABEL=root" etc?

For that reason, I label my filesystems with the system name and mountpoint.

So, I have LABEL=brinton-root, etc.  This does mean that recovering a drive
I have to plug it in after the system boots, or on another system, but I
haven't found that to be much of a limitation.

marcus hall
marcus at tuells.org