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Re: Switching to by-label mounting of partitions



Quoting Jurij Smakov (jurij@wooyd.org):

> 
> As the amount of users who are using the firmware loading feature is probably
> non-negligible, it would be cool to get the installer to assign labels
> by default to all partitions, and generate the /etc/fstab and bootloader
> configs using labels. What do you think?


This is the "use persistent names" release goals for the installer:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals

There is a general agreement this is a wished feature, yes. It "just"
needs people to care enough and make this happen..:-)... Colin Watson
is trying to coordinate efforts to achieve this.




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