On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > first, based on what i've seen, the default red hat installation > will label all of the constructed ext2/3 filesystems with their > respective mount points. fair enough, but what if this is the > second installation on that drive, and those labels are already > allocated? what will the installer use for subsequent labels for > the "same" mount point in the other install? Something like "/2" or "/usr2", appending a number to the end of the mount point. A good bit of care was taken to make sure it wouldn't duplicate labels. > secondly (and possibly related to the first issue), what names does > linux rescue mode use to mount existing filesystems from the hard > drive under /mnt/sysimage? i had initially assumed that, if labels It doesn't use labels at all -- it looks at all of the filesystem on the system to find ones that look like root filesystems (i.e. /etc/fstab needs to exist). If there are multiple ones you should get a list of the choices just like for an upgrade. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
