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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:56:29AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Why? Just use LABELs, ou UUIDs.
> 
> Great if those worked on ALL filesystems, which to my knowledge they do
> not.  Last time I tried to use labels to mount filesystems, I gave up on
> it when I discovered swap didn't support it.  I haven't bothered with
> them since.

While filesystems do you need?  Most filesystems actually do have
LABELs or UUID's, including FAT, VFAT, iso9660, ext2/3, reiserfs, xfs,
etc.  OK, xiafs doesn't have labels or uuid's, but it was removed from
the Linux tree before 2.4 shipped!

						- Ted