Mounting file-systems by label rather than device name
When you're dealing with multiple drives, both fixed and removable, it can get hard to remember which is which. Remembering to mount /dev/sda1 in one place and /dev/sdc5 in another. The solution to this problem is to use labels instead of partition names when referring to them, and here we'll show how that can be done.
There are two things you need to do to start using labels:
Add the label to your filesystem(s), or more properly partitions.
Use the names rather than anything else to refer to your partitions.
To add a label you must use the tune2fs command, specifying the partition to modify and the label to add.
Upon my home system I have only a single disk /dev/sda which has three partitions:
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