On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 09:40 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > if you use LABEL= to refer to your partitions, be aware that moving > them from one machine to anoher is likely to cause confusion with > duplicates that is difficult to fix. Yes. I had to wonder why the installation routine doesn't allow you to set your own labels. Sure, it might automatically use /1 instead of / if it detects a / label already on your system. But I find that scheme quite ambiguous. It'd be useful if I could supply a prefix, at least, so that I can manually label a drive (with texta, for instance), and all partition labels include that name. e.g. I call the drive fred, and it gets labels like /fred, /fredhome, /fredvar. Or it might use a serial number, something that's that written on the drive and can be read when it's not in a computer..
