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author | Karel Zak | 2010-09-13 11:43:14 +0200 |
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committer | Karel Zak | 2010-09-13 11:43:14 +0200 |
commit | 7c97f7402e77b2d42c4ddfd9516c848a8022f099 (patch) | |
tree | 6a3a0eb5c6809044c5a50cbb5e63191ccf5752ab /mount/mount.8 | |
parent | libblkid: don't ignore zero for SBMAGIC_OFFSET (diff) | |
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mount: better describe UUIDs usage in man pages
Addresses: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632373
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index 0147e71db..79a55f24a 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -136,9 +136,19 @@ or The recommended setup is to use LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid> tags rather than .B /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid} udev symlinks in the /etc/fstab file. The tags are -more readable, robust and portable. The mount(8) command internally uses udev +more readable, robust and portable. The +.BR mount (8) +command internally uses udev symlinks, so use the symlinks in /etc/fstab is not advantage over LABEL=/UUID=. -For more details see libblkid(3). +For more details see +.BR libblkid (3). + +Note that +.BR mount (8) +uses UUIDs as strings. The UUIDs from command line or +.BR fstab (5) +are not converted to internal binary representation. The string representation +of the UUID should be based on lower case characters. The .I proc |