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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:32:28
Message-Id: b16ffaac-d3c9-ecb8-cdfc-641818750257@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update by Gregory Woodbury
1 On 27/10/16 09:23 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
2 > Out of curiosity, why do folks say that the use of LABEL=<name> is not
3 > good? I realize that <name>s are not required when doing a mkfs, but
4 > if the admin does so reliably and wants to use LABEL= thereafter, why should
5 > it be "deprecated"?
6
7 I don't think anyone said that the LABEL= syntax is bad; quite the
8 opposite -- WilliamH wants everyone using /dev/disk/by-label/<name>
9 paths in fstab to instead use LABEL=<name> , to avoid issues if udev
10 doesn't create the symlinks before localmount tries to use them.

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