[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[seasoned_geek]

On May 15, 10:10 am, Paul Sture <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article <iqmq89$nf... at dont-email.me>,
>  glen herrmannsfeldt <g... at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
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> > Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-rem... at this-gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >>> I'm not certain that Unix/Linux really cares what disk is mounted.
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> > >> 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.
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> > > 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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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Paul Sture

Ditto.

Most of the formatting and "prep" tools completely skip over the
ability to assign a volume label because Linux doesn't use them.
Makes good disk organization most frustrating.