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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 | |
| 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount')
| -rw-r--r-- | mount/fstab.5 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mount/mount.8 | 14 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mount/fstab.5 b/mount/fstab.5 index c10490a42..99557194e 100644 --- a/mount/fstab.5 +++ b/mount/fstab.5 @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ writing LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>, e.g., `LABEL=Boot' or `UUID=3e6be9de\%-8139\%-11d1\%-9106\%-a43f08d823a6'. This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label. +.LP +Note that +.BR mount (8) +uses UUIDs as strings. The string representation of the UUID should be based on +lower case characters. .RE .B The second field 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 |