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To: "Dr. A. Haakh" <bugReporter@Haakh.de>
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Subject: Re: devfs: proposal to create links for bootdevice 
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In message <4C72569B.9050807@Haakh.de>, "Dr. A. Haakh" writes:
>Hi,
>
>it would be nice if device-nodes like bda, bdb, bdc ... could be created 
>at boot time referring to the partitions of the boot-device.
>
>With these nodes in your fstab you don't have to edit fstab if devices 
>change.

Use g_label ?

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