Fwd: undelete bookmark folder

[Michael Havens]

now I need to restart for the new line in fstab to be recognized?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:

> From: Michael Havens
> >> 3. Make an entry for the partition you made in your /etc/fstab :
> >> LABEL=MY_BACKUPS  /mnt/backup  ext3  noauto,users,noatime  0  0
> > In step 3 the "LABEL=..." entry in fstab makes it so that whatever has
> > the label MY_BACKUPS will be seen as the proper device regardless of
> > whether it is sdc, sdc1, sdd, etc....?
>
> If you have a LABEL= entry in your fstab, then when you mount the
> mountpoint
> for that entry, ("mount /mnt/backup" here), mount will query each block
> device
> in the system and ask it "Is your label MY_BACKUPS?"  If it gets a "yes"
> answer, it will mount that block device on that mountpoint.  mount knows
> where
> the filesystem labels live on all commonly used filesystems (ext234,
> reiserfs,
> xfs, jfs, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, HFS+, and there are probably others I'm
> forgetting), and it can do this check pretty quickly under normal
> circumstances.
>
> If you have 2 block devices on the same system with the same filesystem
> label,
> and then you try to mount by label, stupid things will probably happen.  So
> don't do that.
>
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