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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:49:03 +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz> wrote: >Hi! > >> It's fragile. But then, so is the proposed replacement. >> >> What you probably really want is something like this: >> >> * for each partition, determine a unique id somehow (ext2 already has >> this, and so does FAT) > >I like to copy partitions byte-to-byte. If I did this to what you >propose, I would break too many things. > >> And it works for every disk type, not only SCSI disks. > >It does not work for other SCSI devices, such as scanners. If there is a duplcate automatic symbolic name, the code could leave a duplicate physcial name without a symbolic mount point. The system (or the etc/fstab?) could mount the device with a user supplied name later in initial or during later processing. This would also handle cases like scanners which wouldn't have data to be read for a symbolic mount point name. john alvord | ||||||||||||
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