On Sun, 25 May 2008 12:18:11 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> I'm not convinced about the utility of having schizophrenic partition >> labels upon install, with no other option. How many people run several >> unixes on the same computer? 5% maybe? Then maybe they should be given >> the option to have ugly labels, and let the rest of us have pretty >> labels by default. > > The problem has little to do with running other systems. Even on the > same fedora install, the device names are not guaranteed to remain > constant. So either a label or uuid is the safe way to refer to the > partition in fstab. For the installer, uuid is better, since the labels > it writes are not really all that unique (LABEL=/ comes up a lot :). > How can the device names change? You mean if I physically permute the drives? Back in the days of RH 5 the /dev/hda? scheme seemed pretty good. At any rate, this is the smallest of nuissances so far in F9. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
