David Wright wrote: > I prefer to populate fstab with canonical information > that actually belongs to the filesystems that are to be mounted.
I don't understand what you're saying here. Does a disk label not belong to a filesystem that is to be mounted ? > A filesystem that has a label, > has that label regardless of any OS. > > It's real, defined in the filesystem's documentation. > > All that stuff in /dev/disk/ is just an ephemeral > bunch of convenient symbolic links, presumably conjured > up by udev or somesuch, if not the linux kernel But are they not accurate after boot for particular disks on a particular machine ? > I'm not clear about which other sort of label > might be referenced by LABEL= I'm not either but if I use /dev/disk/by-label I think I know what sort that is .... :) -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona
