On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote: > Er, and you delete a partition, and everything stops working.. > > I'd more meant that if you had /dev/discs/labels/ or something, if you use labels/uuid then you don't reference a device. mount will hunt down the appropriate device. /etc/fstab: LABEL=my-home-dir-wherever-it-may-be-today /home ... ... ...