A curse on LABEL=

[Timothy Murphy]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> Actually, this has nothing to do with SCSI.  The reason for LABEL is so
> that people who move stuff around inside their computers (add a new
> DVD-ROM drive, add a new hard disk, remove something, whatever) won't
> get surprised by their computer failing to boot or find some filesystems
> because they didn't know the cabling to device number mappings.

How exactly would adding a new DVD drive stop the computer booting?
And how exactly do LABELs assist if you add a new hard disk?

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