Drive Labels (was: Yet another futuristic wishlist item)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le ven 19/12/2003 à 18:27, Sean Estabrooks a écrit : 
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:16:17 -0500
> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> 
> > You don't have to.  The labels are generated by installed, and
> > are used in a couple of places (/etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf).
> > I really can't see how _handy_ can them be but I have had dozen a
> > problems with them.  And last time I tried vanilla kernel 

It always worked with my home-compiled kernels. But again, I've been
using 2.5/2.6 for a *long* time.

> I
> > compiled didn't parsed them and I completely removed that.
> > A few digits (4) from hdd's UUID may be a good option to prepend.
> > 
> 
> Hey Behdad,
> 
> You can choose to use your own labels instead of the ones automatically
> generated for you.

The problem is anaconda does not expose them, the default scheme is
simplistic and breaks 99% of the time when you move discs from one
system to another, so the first experience of most people with them is a
failed boot.

See :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79832

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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