Re: [tlug] Trouble with external USB hard disk: drive order; hard and optical drive names

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On 22/10/08 04:57, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> 'man fstab' implies it doesn't allow volume labels for VFAT yet.  Only
> for ext2/3 and xfs.

On a (V)FAT filesystem, a volume label is technically a file on the disk.
The filesystem therefore has to be mounted already for the O/S to know what
the label is, which means that you cannot specify the partition by its label
in fstab and most likely never will be able to.

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