On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 19:51, Timothy Murphy wrote: > How exactly would adding a new DVD drive stop the computer booting? You open your computer. You pop the DVD drive in. Cables don't reach, so you move some around. Your boot drive now has a different device number under Linux which, if you're not using something like LABEL in /etc/fstab, will render your machine unable to boot. > And how exactly do LABELs assist if you add a new hard disk? In much the same way. Let's say you have a Firewire drive for all of your photos, which you leave permanently attached. You run out of space, buy a new drive, plug it into the USB2 port. This can cause the device number of your Firewire drive to change, which means that unless you're using a LABEL-like scheme, any filesystems on that drive won't get mounted. <b
