Re: RH9 - Can't add second drive - for backup.

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On Friday 05 December 2003 11:51 am, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:34, glenn wrote:
> > Harry - Thanks for your response.  I tried this and got a new
> > message on boot:
> >
> > mount: label=/root duplicate - not mounted
> >
> > I guess this means I will have to relabel all six of the
> > partitions on my second drive?  Sounds like time for a rant (at
> > Red Hat, Harry, not at you):
>
> If I might make a suggestion, have you tried going into rescue mode and
> editing fstab to replace all LABELS with partition names?  This is one
> of the reasons I dislike RH's switch to labels back around 7.2(?).  Just
> change your device column to list stuff like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc.

hah.. that's what I always do (I mean using device name). Good to know that 
someone else don't use/like label. Because if you read the RH manual, it 
sounds like using label is a Good Thing (tm) to do, so I thought I don't do 
thing the "right way".

RDB

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