what kind of /etc/fstab is this?

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Sun, 25 May 2008 12:18:11 -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 :).
> 

How can the device names change? You mean if I physically permute the 
drives? Back in the days of RH 5 the /dev/hda? scheme seemed pretty good.
At any rate, this is the smallest of nuissances so far in F9.