Re: fstab and LABEL=



At 11:17 AM +0930 10/23/06, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 20:20 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
The ultimate goal is to have your disk show up at /dev/diskX; moving
everything to /dev/sdX is just a temporary step in that direction.

That's only going to be of any good if discX *always* appears as discX,
no matter where it's connected, and no matter what else is also
connected.

This thread has many of the exciting details from both sides of the aisle.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115515849926079&w=2

According to that thread, that's the reason to have /dev/disk. Until then,
dev/sd* for everything is going to be a mess, as it's naming is unstable.
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