On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 11:14 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:06 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Just got caught again by this LABEL nonsense. > > I was mounting my laptop hard disk on my desktop - > > both running Fedora- > > and the whole thing was thrown into confusion > > because there were two partitions LABELed "/", > > on my desktop hard disk and on the laptop hard disk. > > > > I had to start again in single mode, > > and change all the entries in /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf . > That's a common problem when adding hdd's with other fedora installs. > > How about generating a random integer at install time, and use it to > label partitions like > /_5643 > /home_5643 > /boot_5643 > ... > and reference these in fstab / grub.conf? Could this create problems? > > I think this would largely remove any of the benefits of labeling. Yes, if you have two partitions labeled "/" or "/boot", you get conflicts. This is expected and the sysadmin should be aware of this, boot into single user and re-label one of the partitions to something else. Thats just how life goes. In other cases, it's a beautiful thing. Now I don't have to remember if it's /dev/hda2, /dev/sdc5, or whatever, it's just LABEL=/. -- David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
