On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Sean Dague wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:10:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Bruce Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Users of ext2/ext3 can use the e2label command and them > > > /dev/disk/by-label/whatever if one wishes to have a more human readable > > > label of partitions. > > > > That's a nice one, thanks for the tip. :-) > > The Fedora guys were doing the LABEL= strategy for the last 4 years or > so with fstab. It works pretty well if you are using ext3 (which most > people are). It won't work with swap partitions though.
Actually I believe they were using LABEL= since the old Red Hat 7 or 8, if I remember correctly. i.e. I think that predates Fedora. > I've personally become a big fan of the UUID= fstab that Ubuntu > autogenerates. That makes life a lot easier when you flip drives > around. I think the main reason Ubuntu went over to using UUIDs was the issues they ran into when switching over from the normal IDE drivers to the libata drivers, which change device names for boot devices. That caused a lot of people headaches when they upgraded from Dapper Drake to Edgy Eft. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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