On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:47:47 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 05.08.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 20:23: > > > >> The Linux kernel requires BSD disk label support compiled in > > >> (CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y) to use the labels with fstab and how it is used > > >> as kernel command line in the grub.conf on Fedora (Redhat) systems. > > > > really? i've used e2label many times for labelling filesystems, and > > i've never built a kernel with BSD labelling. are you sure about > > this? (time to go RTFS, i guess.) > > > > rday > > Hm, I am becoming a bit uncertain when you say that the labels in fstab > work for you on a custom kernel without BSD disklabel support and > because I can't find the source of my "knowledge". If it would be not a > big deal and not last that long, I would compile a kernel without > support for BSD disklabels and try it out. So for now I hope someone > with better and certain knowledge about the topic can state about it > without trial and error. BSD disk labels are not the same than ext2/ext3 volume labels. Robert is right. ext2/ext3 labels are a superblock thing (you can display the label with "dumpe2fs", too).
