Re: Drive ID changed

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

WOW! Martin. Thanks.

This is nothing like NetBSD 5.0 .
Its like learning a new system...

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:20 AM Martin Husemann <martin%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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