Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> Al writes:
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> >
> > > On AIX, it is possible to import a volume group, and it automatically
> > > builds /etc/fstab entries from information stored in the fs. Having the
> > > "last mounted on" would have the mount point info, and of course LVM
> > > would hold the device names.
> >
> > Wait a minute. What happens if you bring /home from one box to another,
> > that already has /home? Corrupted /etc/fstab?
> For the same reason that the UUID and LABEL are stored in the superblock:
> you want this infomation kept with the filesystem and not anywhere else,
> otherwise it will quickly get out-of-date. Wherever you mounted the
> filesystem last is where it would be mounted if you import the VG on
> another system. You can obviously edit /etc/fstab afterwards if it is
> wrong, and then remount the filesystem(s), and this will store the
> correct mountpoint into the filesystem for the next vgimport.
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