On 08/18/10 11:56 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > If LVM supports them, partition labels are the way to go. > > /dev/?da?? get screwed up if you create or destroy partitions. Whereas > labels don't care about the actual device name in question. and plug that disk with label 'root' into another system that has label 'root' and watch it not be to mount the root file system when it boots. btdt.