On 5/8/20, Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I made the labels for the partitions during the original > installation: > > /dev/sda1 = / (primary partition) > /dev/sda2 = (extended partition) > /dev/sda5 = swap (logical partition) > /dev/sda6 = /home (logical partition) > > So /dev/sda2 has no label, as it is just an extended partition, which > "holds" logical partitions: > /dev/sda5 > /dev/sda6
Just thinking out loud because I've never seen labels like that. Interesting that they can be named that way. My question is: Is that the only hard drive with partitions named like that? Just ruling out that maybe there's some kind of conflict if two hard drives have the same layout.. Based on the line deletions reference in your other email, it sounds like the program is not so subtly saying, "You can only have it one way here. Either you do this thing you're doing through me, OR you can have it the other way that you like in your fstab." Maybe it's seeing some kind of obscure, deeply buried clash with the longstanding Linux file system hierarchy? That comes from renaming my own, each with a very different yet easily remembered system. That way when I e.g. "mount LABEL=apthoard-disk1 /var/cache/apt/archives", my system's not quibbling with itself over WHICH "apthoard-disk1" label I'm asking for if it were to find two (or 3... or 4.... or...) instead of only one labeled as such.. Sounds like SOME kind of "bug" because it momentarily makes the system unusable. Maybe something in the documentation, maybe a new change, references it? It seems odd that it deletes and doesn't SOMEHOW replace something in fstab that is how we boot our systems. If it's going to DELETE something because it sees a conflict a user does not, it needs to likewise intelligently guarantee that a system has something else in place to follow through on the very next reboot.... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with.. a dire need for a lightning rod in the backyard. Long term lightning induced Internet disconnects are gettin' real-l-l-l old... *
