On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:25:34 +0000, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 16 December 2004 17:50, Uday Kumar Reddy wrote: > > > In fact, having disk labels is immensely helpful when adding/deleting > > partitions changes the partition minor numbers. With disk labels being > > used in fstab and grub.conf, you don't have to manually edit all the > > device names that have got incremented/decremented. > > Surely if you add partitions you will have to edit fstab anyway. > I would actually think disk-labels would be more likely to cause confusion. > Can you give an example where disk-lables would help > when adding a partition? When you have a disk label for a given partition, you don't have to worry about updating that particular entry (line) in fstab irrespective of how many partitions you have added or deleted before that particular partition on the disk. Now, if you have labels for all your partitions, /, /home, etc... you can just forget about these entries in fstab. Obviously, you have to add/delete an entry when you add/delete a partition, but you don't have to bother about the other entries; do you ever have to edit anything else (except the swap partition entry may be or when you have FAT/NTFS partitions)? Though labels may cause trouble and confusion when you add another hard-disk, which of these happens more frequently --- adding a hard-disk (temporarily/permanently) OR partition numbers getting changed due to adding/deleting a partition? Also, the trouble caused in the latter case is much more sometimes because partition table entries not being in the disk order is very easy to overlook. -- Uday > > I think disk-labels are moderately (not immensely, don't exaggerate) helpful > to a small proportion of Linux users. > But they are confusing and annoying to a far larger number. > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list >