Re: Drive ID changed

[Martin Husemann <martin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:47:07AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
> I found this snippet in some NetBSD documentation:
> 
> "You will the be asked if you want to use DUID notation in
> /etc/fstab, instead of traditional device names. You are strongly
> advised to use DUIDs, as they allow you to move your disks to
> different controllers, or change their bus identifiers, without
> having to modify /etc/fstab every time your configuration changes."

Where? We need to fix that (but I can't find that text anywhere in our man
pages nor on www.NetBSD.org).

The real solution, of course, is to use GPT to partition your disks and
mount by label name or GPT UUID (via NAME=label syntax in fstab).

Martin