On Thursday 7. March 2013 05.38, R James wrote: > After the installation, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst replacing each > UUID=<blahblahblah> with LABEL=<DEFANGED_label>. For example: > > root=LABEL=mgaroot (and) resume=LABEL=swap > > Similarly in /etc/fstab, you can have entries like: > > LABEL=mgaroot / ext4 relatime 1 1 > LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0
The problem with that is in those situations where one have two partitions with the same label, such as when one install into a new and bigger disk and keeps the old disk installed. A friend of mine does that quite often. I still prefer UUID, as those are unique. -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324
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