Comment 34 for bug 106209

Right, as I said, swap shouldn't be a problem.

We are going to stick with UUIDs because the kernel has a fun habit of changing device names every so often. Frankly, we'd much rather have a problem on a relatively small number of multi-boot systems than on all upgrades on whatever disk controllers have had their drivers ported over to libata this release - or whatever else might happen in future. I know the result is a bit tedious, and I'm not dismissing your problem, but going back to device names at this point would regress a lot of other stuff unless we wrote a significant chunk of (very likely long-winded and error-prone) migration code.

As I said in my previous post, I think my preference is to stop automounting altogether and recommend that new users use the point-and-click desktop facilities rather than explaining how to use the command line. People who know how to use mount can obviously continue to do so.