[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-13 13.11, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> On 5/13/2011 1:38 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Michael Moroney wrote:
>>
>>> What's needed is a Linux version of VMS's mount verification.
>>
>> fsck ?
>
> fsck will check the validity of a file system.
>
> Mount verification determines whether or not the disk that is physically
> mounted is, in fact, the disk that is supposed to be mounted; e.g. the
> disk label written on the disk matches that of the disk that is
> supposedly mounted.
>
> I'm not certain that Unix/Linux really cares what disk is mounted.

Traditonally there have been very litte checking for this. Nowadays, 
there have come up a number of solutions that makes it just as viable as 
VMS. But the fact that a disk have the "right" label is no guarantee 
that it is the correct disk... It is only a string, after all...

	Johnny