Removing Labels from fstab

Andrew Parker andrewparker at bigfoot.com
Fri Sep 28 15:45:47 UTC 2007


On 9/28/07, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>
> Fedora 8rc2 like Fedora 6 and 7 uses labels in fstab.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on what happens if I just replace the labels
> with /dev/sdaXX references?

If you ever add/remove disks to your system you may find that sda
becomes sdb or v.v.

conversely, if you use labels and add a disk that happens to use an
existing label, then you're in for a world of fun there too.




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