On 2009/12/12 20:12 (GMT+0100) Lars Müller composed:
Or to ask with as less shaking head: How often are you _creating_ or even touching /etc/fstab by hand?
Routinely. YaST never gets HPFS or my MSDOS options right, never gets VFAT options the way I want them, and usually doesn't even get EXT3 options the way I want them. I don't even want to think about using YaST to do my NFS entries.
And it's still up to you to use /dev/sd*. But here we're at the starting point of this thread. This even includes the risk to end with an unbootable system as soon as you (have to) change something.
Compared to that the requirement to use approximately 60 additional chars is negligible. At least to me. YMMV.
/dev/disk/by-label/ata-ST3320620AS_6QF3PJXC-part10 is just not something I can get my head around to start with, much less remember. That's just too long a space-free string for any purpose other than pasting a URL into a browser's location window.
An alternative approach is to use disk labels.
I've been doing that several years, but the easy way to use labels has been broken for nearly a year: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483136 -- " We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org