[issue974] grml-rebuildfstab confuses user when multiple partitions have the same label

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

Christian Hofstaedtler <ch at grml.org> added the comment:

Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> added the comment:
> * Christian Hofstaedtler wrote in grml's BTS on 20110320 / 13:11:
>> It's more common than we thought that this occurs. (Esp. on auto-partitioned disks
>> (RH Installer...) or prop. OSes.)
>
> Yeah.
>
> But multiple identical labels won't work (that's why just for the
> first label the label entry is used and all the others should fall
> back to safe defaults) - so what's the proper solution?
> Don't use labels if there are more of the same type?

I guess so. We will have to see how we can actually do that.
Maybe we should just put the device name in /etc/fstab and add a
comment with the label...

  -ch

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messages: 3706, 3708, 3710
nosy: ch
priority: wish
status: chatting
title: grml-rebuildfstab confuses user when multiple partitions have the same label

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