Hi Christian,
On second thought... I had a bad night tonight and was thinking a long time about this and that. It suddenly occured to me that there might be another problem with this approach, attaching ordinals to the label name. Assuming you have a single filesystem labled "VOLUME" which is on a fixed disk. So you get something like this: $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:09 VOLUME -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:10 root -> ../../sda3 Now you insert an USB Stick with a FAT32 filesystem, also labeled "VOLUME". Now you get something like this: $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:12 'VOLUME#0' -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:12 'VOLUME#1' -> ../../sdc1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:10 root -> ../../sda3 So the label name changes, depending on inserting or removing another partition. Not saying I have a good solution myself, so I wonder if we should just let it slip, but I thought we should at least talk about it... Thanks, Corinna