Drive Labels (was: Yet another futuristic wishlist item)

[Sean Estabrooks]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:16:17 -0500
Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:

> You don't have to.  The labels are generated by installed, and
> are used in a couple of places (/etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf).
> I really can't see how _handy_ can them be but I have had dozen a
> problems with them.  And last time I tried vanilla kernel I
> compiled didn't parsed them and I completely removed that.
> A few digits (4) from hdd's UUID may be a good option to prepend.
> 

Hey Behdad,

You can choose to use your own labels instead of the ones automatically
generated for you.   It's unfortunate you've had some problems with them
you do take some responsibility when you start compiling your own kernel.

Actually the kernel doesn't have anything to do with it anyway, it is all
contained in the initrd image and will work fine with any vanilla kernel
if you remember to supply an initrd.  I've personally found them handy 
in several situations, and in the worst case, you just have to supply hard
coded device names which you'd have to do anyway.

Cheers,
Sean