[PLUG] fsck: recommended options?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Aug 4 19:32:41 UTC 2019


On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, wes wrote:

> My best guess is that it's simple luck: on the occasion(s) you wanted to
> access the drive manually, it happened to be identified as sdb. Today, it
> happens to have been assigned sdc.
>
> This inability to predict which device name will be assigned to a given
> device is the reason the switch to the UUID method was done.

Wes,

Okay. While I've not seen this when manually mounting the backup drive I've
seen different USB flash drives identified by the kernel with different
device names, each consistently assigned the same name.

Thanks very much,

Rich



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