Roger wrote:
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.
I had this problem too, and found that even though the disks were
mounted as /dev/sdxn there was still confusion with two partitions
labelled "/". Easy to change them with e2label.
Regards,
Peter
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