[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

(snip)
> 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.

It seems that Linux can mount either by device file (/dev/sda)
or by disk label.  In the latter case, it will find the right
disk, even if it moves to a different mount point.

-- glen