On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:11:57PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > 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.
True. Let's mark for 2.5 ToDO list: magic number for swap...
Just because it does not work universally it doesn't have to be a bad idea...
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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