Bug#488321: support labeled mounts
Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> writes:
> Package: partman-target
> Version: 55
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
> since device names aren't always persistent between installation and
> target system, and since people want to create partimages that can
> be deployed without modification on sata as well as pata systems it
> would be nice if d-i would support labeled mounts.
> This would do away with the need for device names in /etc/fstab, one
> can simply uses the label.
> Attached is a small patch that adds the basic infrastructure to
> partman-target. To do this the number of arguments passed around by
> parted to describe the filesystem has to be extended from 6 to 7. The
> 7th argument is the label. The first hunk replaces the device name by
> the label (if set), the second makes sure we mount by device and not by
> label during installation since busybox can't handle it.
> Of course every fs module needs to pass on the label if wants to support
> labeled mounts (I'll attach a patch to partman-ext3).
Looks like you forgot to attach it. Please do.
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