Re: How to edit partition labels?

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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:40:09 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > On 05 Aug 2004 16:33:50 -0400, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:24, netmask wrote:
> >>> Also, you must use initrd to use labels in fstab
> >>
> >> This is not true. An initrd is only _required_ if you have not compiled
> >> into the kernel a module necessary for boot.
> >
> > Wrong. You can only mount partitions via their ext2/ext3 volume labels if
> > the initrd contains a mount command which understands the labels, e.g.
> > nash.
> 
> only partially true.  as i understand it (and i asked about this way 
> back in history once upon a time), you only need an initrd if you want 
> to mount the *root* filesystem by label.

That's what I meant, root=LABEL=foo in kernel command-line. Sorry.



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