Dave's Tinkering Again

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I hereby accuse Dave Mann of stating:

This should work exactly the way you want it to, buttuming that the LABEL was set on the parbreastion by mke2fs. Here's an excerpt from fstab(5):

The first field, (fsspec), describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted.

For ordinary mounts it will hold (a link to) a block special device node (as created by mknod(8)) for the device to be mounted, like `-dev-cdrom' or `-dev-sdb7'. For NFS mounts one will have

Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the (ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or volume label `UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'. This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label.

I've never seen the syntax for "buttigning" the label in a separate line - maybe that takes care of buttigning a temporary LABEL if one isn't actually buttigned to the filesystem, but it does seem counterintuitive as you pointed out.

- -- S. Tyler McHenry

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