Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:01:01 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20 |
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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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