On 05 Aug 2004 16:33:50 -0400, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:24, netmask wrote: > > Also, you must use initrd to use labels in fstab > > This is not true. An initrd is only _required_ if you have not compiled > into the kernel a module necessary for boot. Wrong. You can only mount partitions via their ext2/ext3 volume labels if the initrd contains a mount command which understands the labels, e.g. nash.