** Reply to message from rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:11:48
-0500 (EST)
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, David Talkington wrote:
>
> > Jack Bowling wrote:
> >
> > >This brings up something which has been bothering me: as far as I can
> > >tell, the standard disk utilities such as fdisk and e2fsck do not
> > >understand the LABEL tags for drive assignations. Is it in the plans to
> > >enable this ability at all? Seems like it is asking for trouble if
> > >somebody gets dropped to a command prompt and doesn't know which
> > >partition is mounted where. Myself, I go into fstab and change all the
> > >LABEL tags back to dev entries anyway....
> >
> > I've been told that the change was made so that if a partition is
> > added, deleted, or moved, the kernel can still figure out what to
> > mount where at boot time. I don't know if that's true or if it works.
> > I do know that I don't like it, and find it decidely inconvenient.
>
> using labels for mounting and in /etc/fstab is a *very* good idea,
> as i can tell you from personal experience. if you decide to take
> an existing partition with an ext2 filesystem and split it in
> two for one reason or another, there is a good chance that the
> numbering scheme of the existing partitions is going to change.
> this will cause all sorts of grief when you next boot as a number
> of the entries in /etc/fstab will be wrong.
>
> yes, it may be inconvenient that fdisk doesn't understand labels.
> that's a *really* poor reason to change the labels in /etc/fstab
> back to the device file names. deal with it, and learn to appreciate
> it.
Ummmmm...excuse me. Fdisk and e2fsck are your friends. I would rather keep fdisk happy
rather than diddle around with disk labels. If I do some re-partitioning, then it is
up to me to rework the mount names (boot to linux single, yadda yadda). Perhaps this
is something that we could make selectable at install time?
Jack Bowling
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