Why does fstab use partition UUIDs vice partition labels in F9 beta?

Jeff Voskamp javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Wed Mar 26 18:25:10 UTC 2008


Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
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>> The blkid command (part of e2fsprogs) will show you UUID/label/nodename
>> mappings:
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> Righto...but thanks anyway.  The nice descriptive --and unique-- 
> labels I created will have to be manually matched up with the uuid 
> when I am troubleshooting the various installations I test on this 
> machine.  But then again, using UUIDs is progress towards an error 
> free, just works, installation that may one day really compete with 
> the other os.
>
> (I am good at coloring inside the lines.)
Is everything still in VolGroup00 by default?

Jeff Voskamp




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