On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 00:21 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Since I have different system versions on my disks I would like to control the > various volume labels rather than having anaconda pick their names. For example > my F8 system would get labels like /F8/boot, the F9 system would then have > labels like /F9/boot etc. However, anaconda picks its own strange system which > you can't change afterwards because the anaconda generated labels show up in > grub.conf and initrd.<kernel version>.img and maybe other places. > > So my question is: Is it at all possible to give the system partitions labels > after my own scheme and how? Yes. I started the installation, but before it gets around to the partitioning your drives section, CTRL+ALT+Fn around to find a console that I could enter commands in, then used fdisk to pre-partition my drive as I wanted, and used mkfs to format partitions and give them label names as per my own preferences, likewise with mkswap. I also used the options to check the drives during the formatting, which does make things take longer, but I'd like to find out about faults now rather than later. Then I CTRL+ALT+Fn to go back to the install routine, pick the custom drive layout option, and select my prepared partitions for specific mountpoints, and make sure that they're not set to be formatted. The fstab and grub files use UUIDs to refer to partition, they're automatically created when you create partitions, and the system works them out for you. You don't have to use them though, you can change your mount point definitions from referring to UUIDs to referring to labels. You can use the blkid command to see a table of which device, UUID and volume labels refer to each other, when it comes to re-writing your grub.conf and fstab files. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, all using Gnome in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
