How to use UUIDs and labels to identify filesystems
Issue
- The device node name of a disk (
/dev/sda,/dev/hda,/dev/vda, etc.) may change in some situations. For example, after switching cables around or upgrading certain packages, sda & sdc could swap places. This causes problems when/etc/fstabreferences filesystems by the disk names. How can this be avoided?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later
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