On 8/11/2010, at 5:56pm, Dale wrote: > ... > I have not been able to get grub to see the LABELS yet but I'm going to post > fstab so that you have a example that is known to work and not from a guide: > > /dev/disk/by-label/boot /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 > /dev/disk/by-label/root / reiserfs defaults 0 1 > /dev/disk/by-label/swap none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/disk/by-label/portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults 0 1 > /dev/disk/by-label/home /home reiserfs defaults 1 1 > /dev/disk/by-label/data /data reiserfs defaults 0 1
I'm not paying enough attention to know whether your above fastab works or not, but /dev/disk/by-label/* seems a relatively ugly way of doing things. I'm pretty sure it's not intended that you use that format, and I have no idea whether it's supposed to work that way. All the guides say to use the word "LABEL". That's not a variable or anything - it's the literal word you're supposed to use. I have no idea why a guide should be considered unreliable, but the below is not fabricated - it is from an actual working system: $ grep -ve ^# /etc/fstab LABEL=boot /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 LABEL=/ / ext4 noatime 0 1 LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,users 0 0 LABEL=space /mnt/space ext4 noatime 0 3 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 $ To me this seems cleaner than your format, and it's certainly fewer characters! Stroller.
