Ubuntu Automount by Label?

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Published on 2010-03-30T17:33:05Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 17:33 UTC
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Ubuntu Server 9.10

I know that using the mount command, you can use -L to mount by label like so:

mount -L thelabel /media/themount

Is there any similar way to setup Automount / Autofs to mount by label name?

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