fstab and LABEL=

[Joe Smith]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> ...  It is popular to use as label the path where
> the partition should be mounted, but that's completely up to the sysadmin.

And it makes it so much fun when your mobo blows up and you try to move 
the system drive to another working system, only to find that nothing 
will boot because the labels (e.g. '/usr', '/home', etc.) are all 
duplicated.

Wouldn't it be a better default policy to make the default labels be 
somewhat unique? Say, 1 letter from the mfgr + 2-3 digits from the 
serial# -> "W23:/home".

How is this handled for portable drives? Aren't duplicate labels a 
problem there?

<Joe