On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Jack Bowling wrote:
> ** 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.
so are labels. what is it about this issue that is so difficult for
you to grok?
> I would rather keep fdisk happy rather than diddle around with disk
> labels.
how, exactly, does using labels when you mount make fdisk unhappy?
how does it make your life more difficult to be able to refer to
the partition with label, say, "/boot", rather than have to remember
that it's /dev/hda1.
> If I do some re-partitioning, then it is up to me to rework
> the mount names (boot to linux single, yadda yadda).
and if you (heaven forbid) forget because you're a new user,
having used labels will save you from a horrific experience.
you are making no sense here whatsoever. labels give you added
convenience while taking nothing away from anything else.
you are not being logical.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
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