Messages in this thread | | | Date | 10 Jun 1999 18:47:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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dlang@diginsite.com (David Lang) wrote on 09.06.99 in <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906091900330.31322-100000@dlang>:
> I think this is a BAD idea. > > I had a problem a while ago with an AIX machine. > > 1 the firewall died (power supply), middle of the day, time to scramble > > 2. remove the hard drive, mount it in another machine to read config files > > 3. AIX forced us to change the partition named from /, /usr, /home, etc to > /oldroot, /oldusr, /oldhome, etc
Just because AIX didn't implement it the right way, doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
There's a reason I wanted to use more than just volume labels, you know, that reason being to avoid exactly this problem.
Because I've seen it on Netware servers (the partition named SYS is the one the system boots from, and you definitely don't want two same-name partitions in the system).
We *do* have more info available, though. Uuids, disk serial numbers, all sorts of stuff. Using those allows us to not run into that particular trap.
> don't do anything to a partition that makes it hard to mount it somewhere > else if you need to.
But we *don't* need to, for that scheme.
We're Linux, not AIX.
MfG Kai
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