>Hi!
>
>> It's fragile. But then, so is the proposed replacement.
>>
>> What you probably really want is something like this:
>>
>> * for each partition, determine a unique id somehow (ext2 already has
>> this, and so does FAT)
>
>I like to copy partitions byte-to-byte. If I did this to what you
>propose, I would break too many things.
bull. If you just copy it it's 'broken' anyhow for use on the same system,
this way you just change the label after the copy and it will work.
If you don't like the label scheme simply DON'T use it. All it is, is
symbolic references back to the phsyical map.
>> And it works for every disk type, not only SCSI disks.
>
>It does not work for other SCSI devices, such as scanners.
So what? I've never found a need to mount my scanner. : >
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