[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Wilm Boerhout]

glen herrmannsfeldt mentioned  on 14-5-2011 11:28:
> 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

It will find the disk with the specified label. This may or may not be 
the "right" disk, with "right" meaning "the physical disk that was 
previously mounted"

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