Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally
unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also
don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs
over the past couple of years have set UUID on partitions, and
e2fsck will create a new UUID if it sees an old filesystem that
doesn't already have one.
Other filesystems such as reiserfs at present don't have such a
thing. I brought this a while ago and in theory it's not too hard, we
just need to get Hans to officially designate part of the SB or
whatever for the UUID.
--cw
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