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Hi! I just got a request whether getfsent and family could return in fs_spec the actual device in case LABEL= or UUID= is used. It might make some sense since otherwise all various programs using getfsent would have to do it themselves, on the other side there might be some applications interested in the LABEL= or UUID= (e.g. to copy it somewhere else). One option could be to enlarge struct fstab (together with symbol versioning) and either put the actual device into a new const char * field, or put the actual device into fs_spec and put the original LABEL= or UUID= into the new field. At least checking ext2 labels or uuids does not require bringing too much ext2 knowledge in, it basically means reading /proc/partitions, for each partition there try to read ext2 superblock, check ext2 magic and if it is ok, copy in two superblock fields into some cache. Comments? Jakub
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