> > You must replace the words SWAP BOOT and ROOT with real partition
> > devices, such as /dev/hda3 for swap. (obviously choose what is
> > correct on your system as shown below)
>
> Actually I do use one of these (lower case) in fstab: /dev/root, because
> if I list that in fstab as /dev/hde5 I get two entries for / in
> KwikDisk and KDiskFree (one for /dev/hde5 and one for /dev/root).
>
Sure, this will work on most (I think) Linux file systems since they support
partition labels. However, it won't work for things like FAT partitions
which don't.

Anyway, I use labels on some of my machines, and almost always on my
removable media when I don't need to connect it to a Windows box.

- Mark



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