Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

Lars Kellogg-Stedman (lars@larsshack.org)
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:11:57 -0500 (EST)


> Put LABEL=<label set with e2label> in you fstab in place of the device name.

Which is great, for filesystems that support labels. Unfortunately,
this isn't universally available -- for instance, you cannot mount
a swap partition by label or uuid, so it is not possible to completely
isolate yourself from the problems of disk device renumbering.

-- Lars

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Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org>

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