Re: What is this "root=LABEL=/" stuff?

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Harry Hoffman wrote:

Hi Doug,

The LABEL is referring to a filesystem label introduced some time ago.
Essentially it allows you to label a disk parition. This is useful because once
labeled you don't need to refer to the partition by diskname[part#] (ie. hda5).

That way if you add more disks and the device names switch it won't screw you up.



I'll add the following - if you take another disk w/ a label marked '/' you'll run into problems.


I took a disk from a RH8 system to a RH9 - some emergency disk operations on another parition- and it mounted the wrong partition because hdb had a partition marked as '/'

The problem was corrected by just explicitly specifiing /dev/hda5 as the mount point for / as opposed to the label.

Sorry - to comment so late on this thread.

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