I was mainly speaking of e2fsck. You normally don't do mke2fs
automatically. But even then, yes, volume labels could sitll be used,
although their use would be far less common.
> > If the partition is so corrupt that the label name can't be found
> > user interaction is probably necessary anyway. If the label is intact
> > everything is fine.
>
> But if it isn't , then it's not fine. If the FS is corrupted , then
> any part of it can be bad , including the label , don't you think so ?
Why this should be a reason not to use them escapes me. At the moment its
practically impossible to use labels in your fstab just because e2fsck
doesn't support them.
Do _you_ want to tell me that 99% of the time, e2fsck does something else
than saying "filesystem clean"?
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