Re: cdrecord hangs my computer

[Mikael Pettersson]

Ian Soboroff writes:
 > Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx writes:
 > 
 > > The stuff that supports LABEL= on a partition is a *partial*
 > > solution to decouple the name of the device as the system found it
 > > from a logical name, but as many have noted, it has its own issues.
 > 
 > Yes, labels and UUIDs are great for those of us with lots of SCSI
 > devices, so that adding a controller or changing a cable doesn't
 > require _two_ boots (one to figure out where everything went and edit
 > /etc/fstab, one for real).
 > 
 > I wish I could LABEL swap partitions.

In March 2001 I posted a patch for util-linux to support that:
http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/swap-label/swap-label-patch-2001-03-15

There was only minor interest in the thing, so I've not
pursued it any further.
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