On Monday 21 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:58 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > The other possible way would be to give your devices unique names, > > > either via udev or by using LVM. Advantage over UUIDs: much easier to > > > read. > > > > Or you could use filesystem labels. > > I've used filesystem labels for a long time and generally it works > really well. Only problem I've had is my Dad's machine has a Maxtor > 1-touch 1394 drive. It seems that often it doesn't get recognized by > the 1394 subsystem fast enough to satisfy whatever requirements the > Gentoo scripts have for the label being readable so it doesn't > reliably get recognized every time.
I have thought about using labels, but never really ventured into it (I think I tried it once on a server). Can I do it retrospectively on ext2, reiserfs and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the partition? -- Regards, Mick
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