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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Ext2/Ext3 partition label abuse
Date: 8 Mar 2002 10:24:52 -0800
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By author:    Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@mail.externet.hu>
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> 
> The /proc/partitions "file" lists the partitions in disk-reversed order,
> e.g.:
> 
> /dev/hdc1  ....
> ...
> /dev/hdc10 ...
> /dev/hda1 ...
> ...
> /dev/hda9 ...
> 
> Is there a way to fix this? Yes there is: vendors should not use
> LABEL=XXX method in /etc/fstab. Either use the proper
> device/partition or the UUID. The downside is that fsck messages
> would not be as pretty-printed as now. Or maybe the partitions
> should not be registered in disk-reversed order...
> 

Or maybe mount(8) should signal an error if a label is ambiguous
instead of mounting a random partition.

	-hpa
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