On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:17:25PM +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Besides answer me this : Let's assume that on one box you have > Redhat 7.3 but because it is out of date you want to install on the > same box Fedora Core 4 for example ( Dual boot with 2 Linux > versions ) . If you use labels for the root device , then on boot > how will the Redhat 7.3 know which is it's root partition so it will > try to boot from there and which is the Fedora Core 4 ( btw a > 2.6.* kernel and NOT a 2.4 ) so it will not use it ??? The label for / doesn't have to be /. It could easily be 73root and fc4root. Label the partitions properly and you don't have to worry about it. Edit the fstab and grub.conf entries and you're done. > All am trying to say here is . There are certainly occassion where > LABELS will make things easier , that's the reason they were > originally created , but there are also occassion where LABELS > will not be as helpfull . Labels never create a problem. Not using them can. I've been managing systems for 25 years and multiple operating systems as well. I've never found a device label to cause me more grief than not using one. It's your choice of course to manage your systems as you see fit. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
