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Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:42:00PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
>> Actually, you might want to use UUID or LABEL of the file system instead
>> of device file name.
>>
>> You can get or set UUID or label with tune2fs like this:
>>
>> # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1		(get information)
>> # tune2fs -L root-fs /dev/sda1	(set label)
> 
> Would be cool if we had some way to probe for this in GRUB's "search" command.
> 
> This would make a lot of the current device.map headache disappear.
> 

I think labels are already supported :)