Re: new fstab

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On 07-Oct-00 Wayne Dyer wrote:
> Adrian Reber wrote:
>> 
>> Red Hat Linux 7.0 uses volume labels instead of device names by default in
>> /etc/fstab.
>> 
>> I found this sentence. I would like to know if someone knows where i can
>> find some documentation about this.
> 
> I found a few things.  The god of disks, Ted T'so says:
> 
>   The advantage of doing this is that the filesystems are specified in a
>   device independent way. So for example, if your SCSI chain gets
>   reordered, the filesystems will get mounted correctly even though the
>   device names may have changed.
> 
> from: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue48/tag/53.html
> 
> Check `man tune2fs` -- the -L option (also see the -U option, as Ted sez
> you can use the UUID in /etc/fstab also).

Would anyone care to give an example of how one creates a volume lable our use
aUUID in an fstab?
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