Followup to: <3C88890C.6010303@mail.externet.hu>
By author: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@mail.externet.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The /proc/partitions "file" lists the partitions in disk-reversed order,
> e.g.:
>
> /dev/hdc1 ....
> ...
> /dev/hdc10 ...
> /dev/hda1 ...
> ...
> /dev/hda9 ...
>
> Is there a way to fix this? Yes there is: vendors should not use
> LABEL=XXX method in /etc/fstab. Either use the proper
> device/partition or the UUID. The downside is that fsck messages
> would not be as pretty-printed as now. Or maybe the partitions
> should not be registered in disk-reversed order...
>
Or maybe mount(8) should signal an error if a label is ambiguous
instead of mounting a random partition.
-hpa
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