On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:30:19AM -0500, Satish Balay wrote: > > Could someone explain why the LABEL notation is preferable to the > /dev/.. notation? I feel that the /dev notation is more precise - and > easier to change things... The idea is that it allows you to move drives around in your machine and still be able to boot without having to change a thing. FWIW, it's only caused problems for me. > And where is the mapping from LABEL -> hda* stored? And what tools > does one use to set/change this thing up? The info is stored in the partition meta-data. The man page to e2label explains this far better than I can. Emmanuel
