* Rob Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-02 21:31]: > Is it not true that the linux kernel won't necessarily mount items > in fstab based on partition label? As part of D-I RC2 manual > partitioning, one is given the option to label the partitions (new > or those that would be formatted), but I thought I read somewhere > that the partition labels themselves can't be used in /etc/fstab but > I could be wrong. Is that what you are referring here (uuid)?
There are two things: labels and uuid. Every partition (except for swap by default) always has an uuid, which is a unique id. A label is similar, but needs to be set explicitly by the user. In Linux, you can use UUID= or LABEL= in /etc/fstab. In the past, this wasn't supported on the NSLU2 because our script that parses /etc/fstab and writes the root device to the ramdisk (initramfs) didn't know about LABEL and UUID. I've recently implemented this, so both LABEL and UUID will work [*]. However, the installer currently doesn't support this, so you need to edit /etc/fstab manually (and run update-initramfs and flash-kernel). [*] LABEL=/ will not work (but LABEL=root does) because the script actually checks whether the device exists in /dev/disk/by-label and that's not possible for / (since / is the directory separator). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
