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Persistent naming with multiple internal drives in Slackware

Posted 08-07-2018 at 02:52 PM by Lysander666
Updated 08-07-2019 at 03:23 AM by Lysander666 (spelling + added conclusion)

Tags fstab, lilo

Pre-amble – skip to avoid the lead-in:

I told myself I’d write a post when I eventually got this sorted out. I’m not a long-term Linux user, I started in Feb 2017 with Ubuntu, moving onto Debian in April 2017 and Slackware in January 2018. I had been intrigued by Slackware for years and wanted to run it for as long: it was a like a geek-goal, some sort of nerd ambition. But I also knew that the road to doing so would be hard, and I’d have a steep learning curve and a lot of research...

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Use tune2fs, unmounted, BEFORE adding journal=writeback on fstab

Posted 01-30-2015 at 10:38 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 02-03-2015 at 10:00 PM by the dsc

Tags fstab, tune2fs, writeback

The title says everything.

Can be fixed by booting with a live CD, though.

tune2fs /dev/sd<N> -o journal_data_writeback

Tune2fs' manual warns against doing something like that on a mounted device.

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uuidfstab - Convert fstab contents to a format that uses UUID instead of /dev paths.

Posted 09-04-2012 at 09:09 PM by konsolebox
Updated 05-27-2018 at 03:10 PM by konsolebox

Tags bash, fstab, script, uuid

This script helps a user or admin to automatically convert items in fstab so that they would use UUIDs instead.

uuidfstab[.sh]

Code:

#!/bin/bash

function error {
	echo "$1" >&2
	exit 1
}

function show_usage_and_exit {
	error "Usage: $0 <path_to_fstab_file> [<new_fstab_file>]"
}

function process {
	local FSTABFILE=$1 NEWFSTABFILE=$2 LINE DEVICE TEMPFILE

...

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