** Reply to message from "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 11 Mar 2001 
13:36:28 -0700

> Jack Bowling wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for making my point for me. To repair anything, one would have to know 
>the device names of the partitions unless the userland utilities are re-written to 
>take LABEL tags into consideration. So you would have to go back to your notebook at 
>crash time and thumb through to the section where you duly transcribed all LABEL to 
>device name pairs at install time for the affected machine anyway. What...pray tell 
>you didn't do so?
> 
>     That was a bad example, I realized that afterwards, however, this is a better 
>one:
<snip>

Ashley - You continue to miss my point which is that at repair time, you *must* know 
the disk partition device mappings in order to fix anything. For newbies who find 
themselves dumped to a command prompt after a crash and are trying to find their way 
around with fdisk, etc. they will be flummoxed. Yes, I agree that LABEL works fine if 
nothing ever goes wrong. But I would prefer to not have to deal with LABEL. So that is 
why I would prefer to have a selectable option to do it the *old* way at install time.

Jack Bowling
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