I realize that I didn't see any such option at install time, either.
But, for those of us who know how, we can simply edit /etc/fstab to remove
the labels, can we not?
In the meantime, I'd like to ask the RedHat folk if there is a simpler way
to do said task?
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Jack Bowling wrote:
> ** Reply to message from "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 11 Mar
>2001 13:36:28 -0700
>
> > Jack Bowling wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you for making my point for me. To repair anything, one would have to know
>the device names of the partitions unless the userland utilities are re-written to
>take LABEL tags into consideration. So you would have to go back to your notebook at
>crash time and thumb through to the section where you duly transcribed all LABEL to
>device name pairs at install time for the affected machine anyway. What...pray tell
>you didn't do so?
> >
> > That was a bad example, I realized that afterwards, however, this is a better
>one:
> <snip>
>
> Ashley - You continue to miss my point which is that at repair time, you *must* know
>the disk partition device mappings in order to fix anything. For newbies who find
>themselves dumped to a command prompt after a crash and are trying to find their way
>around with fdisk, etc. they will be flummoxed. Yes, I agree that LABEL works fine if
>nothing ever goes wrong. But I would prefer to not have to deal with LABEL. So that
>is why I would prefer to have a selectable option to do it the *old* way at install
>time.
>
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