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[Randy Forston]

jdow wrote:
> From: "Karl Larsen" <k5di at zianet.com>
>> jdow wrote:
>>> From: "Karl Larsen" <k5di at zianet.com>
>>> 
> 
>>> I have taken the labeling one step further than I remember RedHat
>>> taking before. I labeled the FC7 install with a "-7" at the end of
>>> the label to make it distinguishable from the others. So I have
>>> things like sda0 is labeled "/boot-7" and so forth.
>>> 
>>> {^_^}   Joanne, also a ham.
>>    Right this moment grub.conf and fstab have labels where they can
>> be used. I like it fine but learned that if I use software RAID I
>> can't use labels. So it depends what I do.
> 
> I've avoided software RAID completely, mostly for speed reasons. This
> seems like another good reason to avoid it. That is good to know. 
> 
> Out of curiosity have you tried the Rescue feature on the install DVD
> or CDROMs? That at least might get you in so you could repair any
> misfeatures. But you'd have to resize and move partitions around via
> some other means. So if there's nothing precious on the system I'd
> simply reinstall with a more sane disk layout. (A difficult
> experience also makes me wary of the LVM feature, too.)     
> 
> {o.o}    Joanne

If you want speed, use RAID 1.