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Is it partman that takes care of creating /etc/fstab in the installation
target?

Just wondering if it's worthwhile getting with the times (compared to Red
Hat) and using filesystem labels or UUIDs in /etc/fstab instead of block
devices? It's certainly better for SCSI systems when a disk fails.

I only discovered UUID support today, which in my mind, negates the value in
packaging devlabel for Debian.

This would require (presumably) partman to give each filesystem a label when
they're created (if supported by the filesystem) and then using that label
in /etc/fstab, or the UUID (I think the UUID is probably more global, not
all filesystems support the concept of a label).

What do people think?

regards

Andrew

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