/var on a USB disk

[Florian Diesch]

Teemu Nikkilä <teemu.nikkila at innovativeideasoy.com> wrote:

> I'd like to keep /var on a USB disk, 

Why do you want that?


> but there are serious problems since
> the /dev/sdX entries are dynamically changed as I plug in an another
> drive.
>
> The fstab entry is based on the disk uuid:
> # /dev/sdc1
> UUID=b443310d-5a1a-43df-9731-038cbf61a2ea /var ext3 relatime 0 2
>
> Here /dev/sdc1 is wrong:

/dev/sdc1 is just a comment, it isn't used by the system.

[...]
> Is there a way to mount the drive based on the uuid only?

It's the default since AFAIR Ubuntu 7.04


   Florian
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