Odd partition labeling

Klaus Steden klaus.steden at thomson.net
Fri Jul 15 19:52:07 UTC 2005


> > Agreed - get rid of LABEL= in fstab, altogether:
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2005-March/msg00096.html
> 
> This leads to bad things down the line if you add a new drive
> and it magically becomes sda and pushes current drive to sdb.
> 
> There are pluses and minuses to each solution...
> 
Personally, I find them annoying, but you're right, there are advantages to
both approaches.

Would it make sense to add a switch to the disk partitioning section of
anaconda to allow for the use of labels or device names as desired? Seems to
me the most reasonable approach.

Klaus




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