F9: Mounting of drives

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:06 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:54 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > Keep in mind that the labels of the drives are the same - so is the
> > > answer to this problem is to assign UUID or something or is this
> > > controlled strictly via the BIOS?
> >
> > UUID. This is basically what it's for.
> >
> Can you point me to a link where I can assign UUID
> to partitions?  I have read the man pages and searched
> the website but cannot find instructions on how to do
> it.

If you never want to move disks between systems, you can always just
assign your own labels and ignore UUID. "man e2label".

poc