On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 08:26 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
I always reconfigure /etc/fstab on my workstation, after
installation,
to reference UUID= instead of LABEL= for all my system partitions. The
only problem with that approach is that I can't simply do the same thing
in GRUB. Appending the UUID to the LABEL would take care of the problem
without having to make more than a trivial change; is this something to
propose for anaconda perhaps?
The problem is that the label has a max length (filesystem dependent,
it's 15 chars for ext[23] iirc). So appending the UUID isn't really
doable.
Switching to mount by UUID instead of by label has been proposed a few
times, but I find it to be a fairly disgusting thing to have to expose
at all and thus have resisted the suggestion.
Jeremy