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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:

> The stuff that supports LABEL= on a partition is a *partial*
> solution to decouple the name of the device as the system found it
> from a logical name, but as many have noted, it has its own issues.

Yes, labels and UUIDs are great for those of us with lots of SCSI
devices, so that adding a controller or changing a cable doesn't
require _two_ boots (one to figure out where everything went and edit
/etc/fstab, one for real).

I wish I could LABEL swap partitions.

Ian