[K12OSN] Help! Added 2nd drive and edited fstab = no boot

[Jim Kronebusch]

> I recently asked someone from Red Hat why the preference for 
> partition labels in fstab rather than the actual device names (I,
>  too, prefer device names instead of labels).  He said that as 
> pluggable devices become more common, such as USB disks and sticks,
>  it cannot always be guaranteed that /dev/sdb3 will be the third 
> partition on the second SCSI disk.  With the advent of SATA drives,
>  which appear as /dev/sd* devices, one can foresee a day when all 
> storage is a /dev/sd* device.  With labels, which are written to the 
> device, hot plugging and unplugging of devices won't interfere with 
> the OS disks. All of which makes sense to me, so I've been trying to 
> get in the habit of using labels.

Thanks for that clarification Petre.  I was wondering the same thing. After
that explanation I will try and adopt the label system as well.  I hate when
my drive assignments change and I have to redo my mount command.

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