> > 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
