what kind of /etc/fstab is this?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 12:18 -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 :).
But how do oyu find the correct UUID label?
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