On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 12:19 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote: > I don't really understand the need for disk labels in fstab at all, in > fact it has always caused me more problems while not doing anything > helpful that I am aware of. I use them to get consistent naming for a couple of removable devices that have the same purpose but are used at different times. It's quite convenient for that kind of use. There may also be other things that cause the disk numbering to change (BIOS upgrades etc) and in that case using labels can make things just work instead of needing manual fstab fixing. > I would like to remove labels from some partitions. I have relabeled > partitions but I'm not quite sure how to safely remove labels. At least on ext2/3 I believe that there is always a filesystem label, when it's "missing" it is just set to an empty string. Any reason why just setting the label to an empty string is not good enough? /Per