Jack Bowling wrote:
> Ummmmm...excuse me. Fdisk and e2fsck are your friends.
Your point?
> I would rather keep fdisk happy rather than diddle around with disk labels.
Neither fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, nor e2fsck have anything to do with labels, or the
other way around. Labels come in handy when it comes to MOUNTING partitions, not
making them, not checking them.
Picture this: Today you set up a machine, and you, being the diligent one that
you are, change all labels in fstab to be /dev/hda1, hda2, sda1, hdb2, blah blah blah.
Six months from now, one of those partitions crash. Now you're going to sit there
and figure out, exactly what device that was again, was that
hdb2, or hda6?
Second scenario: Today you set up a machine and you LEAVE those labels in place.
The partition crashes, big deal, repair it and issue 'mount /usr/local' and you're
done again (assuming it was /usr/local that crashed). No trying to figure out where
/usr/local was in the first place.
> If I do some re-partitioning, then it is up to me to rework the mount names (boot to
>linux single, yadda yadda).
Some people enjoy doing things the hard way. I like to have a beer while you go
through the paces (and trust me, I will).
AMK4
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