[systemd-devel] 628c89cc (tentative devices) + disk/by-label udev rule

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 17.06.15 15:44, Peter Mattern (matternp at arcor.de) wrote:

> The messages about several sysfs paths per device aren't caused by volume
> labels as seen in /dev/disk/by-label only.
> On GPT systems they seem to be triggered by identical partition labels
> corresponding to variable PARTLABEL in output of blkid as well.
> Also, they can be seen launching Arch Linux installer's live system the file
> system handling of which I don't know well enough to tell what exactly is
> happening.
> 
> I guess the solution to just suppress the messages will still be the same
> but thought it may make sense to quickly mention those findings here as the
> thread had been limited to labels in /dev/disk/by-label so far.
> 
> On a side note several partitions tagged by the same partition label will
> probably exist on nearly every system. As /dev/disk/by-partlabel  seems to
> reference only one per label I wonder whether this directory makes any sense
> at all.

Depends on the setup. I mean, if you refernces devices by its part
label, then you better make sure the part label is unique enough so
that it doesn't explode in your face right-away...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat