On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:38 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > [rant] Digressing a little, I have a bone to pick with Kay Seivers and Greg K- > H. Their attitude is that only symlinks should be used in /dev and created > from udev rules (for the most part), and those symlinks may only be named > with > character sequences that are incomprehensible to ordinary humans.[/rant]
Are you unaware then, that udev provides the /dev/disks/by-label directory, which contains volume labels as symlinks to the kernel-named devices? For example, my fstab file doesn't reference /dev/sda6 for the /home partition - it uses /dev/disk/by-label/home instead. Likewise, /boot is mounted as /dev/disk/by-label/boot and the swap partition as /dev/disk/by-label/swap. Simon.
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