Is there a downside to using symlinks with my partitions?

DrWoland · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 603

I have a fairly annoying partition table due to having a dualboot setup with excessive partitioning of the linux setup as part of a security excersize (sda1-sda13) and it gets annoying having to look at my notes to remember which partition is which. Is there anything wrong with having a /drives folder which has -s symlinks to the entries in /dev? I already tested and mount works with the symlinks, haven't tried fstab yet. Anybody know anything about this?
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/dev/random · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:32 am Post subject:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
udev will do this for you.

Especially look at the writing udev rules link at the end.

DrWoland · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 603

/dev/random · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:29 am Post subject:

If you get more SATA hard drives you won't have to change the symlinks.

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