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Offline b1ackmai1er

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Suggestion for TC - unique mount points.
« on: July 11, 2011, 02:01:26 AM »
Hi Guys,

I would like to suggest an improvement to TC regarding mount point for drives. Currently TC automatically scan drives and created mount points in fstab based on drive/partition name is /mnt/sda1. To add a degree of device independence could I suggest that multiple mount points be created for each device based on UUID and/or label.

So If a drive was added, a mount point would be created /mnt/sda1 and also (perhaps as a symbolic link) /mnt/UUID and /mnt/label.

The advantage of this is that as drives are added or removed, scripts could refer to the /mnt/UUID or /mnt/label address and would not be affected by the changing drive sequence that currently occurs with the drive/partition method.

Regards b1ackmai1er


Offline curaga

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Re: Suggestion for TC - unique mount points.
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2011, 03:05:28 AM »
You could not then do "(u)mount /mnt/label", which is what many would expect. This has been discussed before.
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Offline b1ackmai1er

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Re: Suggestion for TC - unique mount points.
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2011, 06:38:34 AM »
Thanks. there is hidden complexity in everything!