Re: fstab: use UUID or labe?

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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Rory Jaffe <rsjaffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the original drive fails, will that UUID still point to the
> filesystem, or is it better to use the label for the filesystem? Will
> the filesystem mount in either case with the failure of the original
> drive?

A Btrfs volume has one label and one UUID. All member drives contain
this information. So the answer is, it doesn't matter whether you use
label or UUID in fstab, except that with UUID there's a lower chance
of collision.

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Chris Murphy
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