Lars writes:
> > Put LABEL=<label set with e2label> in you fstab in place of the device name.
>
> Which is great, for filesystems that support labels. Unfortunately,
> this isn't universally available -- for instance, you cannot mount
> a swap partition by label or uuid, so it is not possible to completely
> isolate yourself from the problems of disk device renumbering.
There is room for a LABEL and/or UUID in the swap superblock, if you
would want to implement support for this. I took a look once, and it
should be possible to add in a compatible way. Of course, you can
always put swap into LVM, which also makes it (along with filesystems
other than ext2) immune from the nasty device name changes.
Cheers, Andreas
--
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\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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