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.