[PATCH] Add support for mounting by label or UUID

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 3:17 am, Jason Schoon wrote:
> An updated patch is attached.  Should work the same as previously, except I
> added support for FAT file systems as well.  Turns out I needed to support
> them, and since the util-linux mount didn't handle them, it was time to
> brush up on my FAT skills ;-)
>
> I have now tested this with Reiser, ext2, ext3, FAT16 and FAT32 on a x86
> platform.  Feel free to test on others and let me know if there are issues.

Ok, I just read through this, and I'd really rather not glue it onto mount.

This is already more or less a separate applet that finds which partition has 
a given disklabel, so why not just make a new applet that does that and call 
mount via something like:

mount `finddisk label=blah` /thingy

Does that make sense?  (You could also add CONFIG_FEATURE options to that for 
supporting the various filesystem types.)

On a side note, don't we _have_ fat and ext2 headers already defined 
somewhere?  (That part can be cleaned up later...)

Rob
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