On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:07:31PM +0000, Duncan wrote:

Unfortunately, since gpt is reasonably new in terms of filesystem and 
partitioning tools, there isn't really anything (mount, etc) that makes 
/use/ of that label yet,

udev exports GPT labels and uuids by symlinks, see

  ls /dev/disk/by-partlabel/
  ls /dev/disk/by-partuuid/

you can use these links in your fstab. And if I good remember kernel
supports PARTUUID for root= command line option.

    Karel

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