[mythtv-users] partition names

Nicolas Krzywinski myth at site7even.de
Sat Oct 31 23:04:21 UTC 2015


> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 23:02:05 +0100
> From: Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] partition names
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> 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
My advise for labels is to use a short abbreviation that describes a) 
the drive and b) the purpose of this partition.

E. g. my 1 TB HGST drive has partitions with labels: h1t_root, 
h1t_home, h1t_var, h1t_usr, h1t_data, h1t_swap
Applying this consequently to all partitions on all drives helps a lot 
when doing manual maintenance. Of course, there is an additional index 
needed, to distinguish multiple drives of same type.

I would not recommend to label partitions after a volatile name. This 
may lead to confusion when adding a new drive that gets the device name 
sda, pushing the old drive to sdb, having the old partition labels sda1, 
sda2, ... etc.

Regards, Nicolas


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