On Thursday 16 December 2004 17:50, Uday Kumar Reddy wrote: > In fact, having disk labels is immensely helpful when adding/deleting > partitions changes the partition minor numbers. With disk labels being > used in fstab and grub.conf, you don't have to manually edit all the > device names that have got incremented/decremented. Surely if you add partitions you will have to edit fstab anyway. I would actually think disk-labels would be more likely to cause confusion. Can you give an example where disk-lables would help when adding a partition? I think disk-labels are moderately (not immensely, don't exaggerate) helpful to a small proportion of Linux users. But they are confusing and annoying to a far larger number. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland