Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by PaulFrields: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Installer?action=diff&rev2=113&rev1=112 The comment on the change is: Editorial pass ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ===== To check disk partition labels ===== - Partition labels can be viewed by booting into the existing Fedora installation, and entering the following at a terminal prompt: + To view partition labels, boot the existing Fedora installation, and enter the following at a terminal prompt: {{{$ /sbin/blkid }}} - In the list displayed, confirm that each volume line has a `LABEL=` value, eg: + Confirm that each volume line in the list has a `LABEL=` value, as shown below: {{{/dev/hdd1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="ec6a9d6c-6f05-487e-a8bd-a2594b854406" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" }}} ===== To set disk partition labels ===== - For partitions that don't have a label, use: + For partitions wihtout a label, use the following command: {{{ su -c 'e2label /dev/example f7-slash' # ext2/3 }}} - For a vfat filesystem, use dosfslabel from package dosfstools, and for ntfs filesystem use ntfslabel from the ntfsprogs package. Do not reboot the machine without also updating the file system mount entries, and the grub kernel root entry. + For a VFAT filesystem use `dosfslabel` from the `dosfstools` package, and for NTFS filesystem use `ntfslabel` from the `ntfsprogs` package. Before rebooting the machine, also update the file system mount entries, and the GRUB kernel root entry. ===== Update the file system mount entries ===== - If any filesystem labels were added or modified, then the device entries in `/etc/fstab` must be adjusted to match + If any filesystem labels were added or modified, then the device entries in `/etc/fstab` must be adjusted to match: {{{ su -c 'cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig' su -c 'gedit /etc/fstab' }}} @@ -110, +110 @@ ===== Update the grub.conf kernel root entry ===== - If the label for the / (root) filesystem was modified, the kernel boot parameter in the grub configuration file also needs to be modified + If the label for the / (root) filesystem was modified, the kernel boot parameter in the grub configuration file must also be modified: {{{ su -c 'gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf' }}} A matching example kernel grub line is: -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
