Removing Labels from fstab

[Robert Nichols]

Doug Wyatt wrote:
>
> When I upgraded from FC4 to F7, aside from dealing with the
> renaming of the drive device files (I have both IDE and SATA
> drives), I got some message that I interpreted to mean that
> partition labeling was required, even after adjusting the
> device names referenced in fstab to reflect the newly assigned
> device names.  Only my root partition was labeled, so I had
> to assign labels and modify the fstab to get everything else
> mounted.

Upgrading to a new Fedora version will fail if /etc/fstab does
not use labels.  This is because a new version may change the
order in which devices are detected, thus making device names
no longer a reliable way to specify partitions.

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