Fedora 9 and Security

[Niels Weber]

2008/5/30 Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>:
> Filesystems have labels, and unlike partition device names or UUIDs, they
> need not be unique, so two installs on different drives or partitions can
> leave you with two filesystems names "/".
>
> Only the UUID is (a) not going to change and (b) not going to be duplicated
> by anything like normal system operation. It is therefore the least likely
> to lead to an unwanted learning experience.

As long as I still can mount a partition with the device name and
never need to remember the UUID, I'm fine with that.

Niels