sd, sd, who's got the sd - f7 work required before release!
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon Apr 30 21:28:07 UTC 2007
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:24:36PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:28:43 +1000
> David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> > * need to be able to set the labels in anaconda partitioning - currently
> > you can set the mount point - but not the label.
>
> Amen to this. Might not be possible to automatically fix everything
> that can happen, but if I know I'm installing in a machine
> where I'm going to be plugging back in some disks, it would be
> exceedingly handy to be able to explicitly set the disk label during
> install so I don't have to change the label later and fix grub.conf
> and fstab files.
>
> Worse yet, the system can use labels for lots of different kinds of
> partitions, yet as near as I can tell, no available linux tool can change
> the label on anything except an ext2/3 partition (swap is a common one
> that comes to mind).
Urm, swap contains no important data so just re-run mkswap
swapoff /dev/hda2
mkswap -L FooBar /dev/hda2
swapon -L FooBar
Regards,
Dan.
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