Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:42:28 +0100 | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: cdrecord hangs my computer |
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Ian Soboroff writes: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes: > > > The stuff that supports LABEL= on a partition is a *partial* > > solution to decouple the name of the device as the system found it > > from a logical name, but as many have noted, it has its own issues. > > Yes, labels and UUIDs are great for those of us with lots of SCSI > devices, so that adding a controller or changing a cable doesn't > require _two_ boots (one to figure out where everything went and edit > /etc/fstab, one for real). > > I wish I could LABEL swap partitions.
In March 2001 I posted a patch for util-linux to support that: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/swap-label/swap-label-patch-2001-03-15
There was only minor interest in the thing, so I've not pursued it any further. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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