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| author | Karel Zak | 2013-09-26 15:42:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2013-09-26 15:42:54 +0200 |
| commit | 71e87708b9455324ad17b36029d83cc6583420d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d8b40a63b3b73531209c7a1f14d651cf77b2809 /sys-utils/mount.8 | |
| parent | libmount: compose mount.<type> helpers paths more carefully (diff) | |
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mount: add notes about UUIDs to the man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index 8a82e19e2..c99891888 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -148,8 +148,13 @@ partition .B PARTUUID or .B PARTLABEL -(partition identifiers are supported for GUID Partition Table (GPT) and MAC -partition tables only). +(partition identifiers are supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) +partition tables). + +Don't forget that there is no guarantee that UUIDs and labels are really +unique, especially if you move, share or copy the device. Use +.BR "lsblk -o +UUID,PARTUUID" +to verify that the UUIDs are really unique in your system. The recommended setup is to use tags (e.g. LABEL=<label>) rather than .B /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid,partuuid,partlabel} |