@sector no problem. That stuff makes me nervous - it's so easy to make a silly mistake on a terminal. (speaking from experience) I usually use gparted for doing things to partitions. It just feels a bit safer somehow.
@bizcuit labels:
They don't change, at least till you format the drive/partition.
They're much shorter and easier to remember than uuid's.
They cooperate with various other system stuff like Thunar's left hand panel.
[SOLVED] fstab, chown or chmod - A partition
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Re: [SOLVED] fstab, chown or chmod - A partition
All code is one.
Re: [SOLVED] fstab, chown or chmod - A partition
Thanks good to know, the one about Thunar's sidepane esp. Most the time the mount pts I've dragged and dropped into the sucker make it easy to identify the partitions. Though sometimes ( like while saving something) have noticed thunar just shows the partitions. Have to pick the one I want to save on by it's size = annoying. :)
Re: [SOLVED] fstab, chown or chmod - A partition
You can put labels on plugin usb stuff too, and refer to them in scripts. Usb sticks get allocated mountpoints /media/disk /media/disk1 etc in the order they're plugged in. If a stick has a label it'll always be mounted on /media/label, at least with thunar's automounting.
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