Rant on LABELs

[Florin Andrei]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 12:48, Robert Locke wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:06, 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.

> LOL!!!  I went through this same thing with a second drive on my laptop
> as I did a fresh install of FC2 (old drive was FC1)....
> 
> BTW, the theory is to help us with SCSI dynamic drive assignment, but
> most of us have IDE....

Labels are good for big servers, but apparently are causing more
problems than solving them on other machines.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/