On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 11:14 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:06 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Just got caught again by this LABEL nonsense.
> I was mounting my laptop hard disk on my desktop -
> both running Fedora-
> and the whole thing was thrown into confusion
> because there were two partitions LABELed "/",
> on my desktop hard disk and on the laptop hard disk.
>
> I had to start again in single mode,
> and change all the entries in /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf .
That's a common problem when adding hdd's with other fedora installs.
How about generating a random integer at install time, and use it to
label partitions like
/_5643
/home_5643
/boot_5643
...
and reference these in fstab / grub.conf? Could this create problems?
I think this would largely remove any of the benefits of labeling. Yes,
if you have two partitions labeled "/" or "/boot", you get conflicts.
This is expected and the sysadmin should be aware of this, boot into
single user and re-label one of the partitions to something else. Thats
just how life goes. In other cases, it's a beautiful thing. Now I
don't have to remember if it's /dev/hda2, /dev/sdc5, or whatever, it's
just LABEL=/.
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David Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com>