Re: Power loss causes bad magic number??

[Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Stephen Porter" <stephenp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>   
> I think this is going to be my only option (unless I want to keep
> updating fstab entries each time _something_ updates on the box).  Time
> to visit google again.  I realise this is now way off topic, but is
> there a "preferred method" with regards to mounting by labels or uuid?

Modern distributions generall give you several other options using udev.
e.g. common is using /dev/disk/by-path/ (which should be stable)
Drawback is that this always requires a initrd for mounting /

-Andi