[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

In article <iqmq89$nfi$1 at dont-email.me>,
 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-remove at this-gmail.com> wrote:
> (snip, someone wrote)
> >>> I'm not certain that Unix/Linux really cares what disk is mounted.
> 
> (then I wrote)
> >> 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.
>  
> > 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"
> 
> In days past, there were systems to assign volume labels to 
> reduce the chance that two had the same label.  (Especially for
> tapes, but disks, too.)   It seems that I have a linux system
> with a disk label of 1, which isn't so likely to be unique.
> 

I've found that the Linux utilities in and around the area of setting up 
disks and partitions and OS installation make it easy to lose volume 
labels.  So much so that it can be easier / less frustrating to set them 
when done.

-- 
Paul Sture