Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Ext2/Ext3 partition label abuse | Date | 8 Mar 2002 10:24:52 -0800 |
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Followup to: <3C88890C.6010303@mail.externet.hu> By author: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@mail.externet.hu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The /proc/partitions "file" lists the partitions in disk-reversed order, > e.g.: > > /dev/hdc1 .... > ... > /dev/hdc10 ... > /dev/hda1 ... > ... > /dev/hda9 ... > > Is there a way to fix this? Yes there is: vendors should not use > LABEL=XXX method in /etc/fstab. Either use the proper > device/partition or the UUID. The downside is that fsck messages > would not be as pretty-printed as now. Or maybe the partitions > should not be registered in disk-reversed order... >
Or maybe mount(8) should signal an error if a label is ambiguous instead of mounting a random partition.
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