On Thursday 25 November 2004 23:17, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > > around is when labels become really useful, I have a linux dedicated > > drive with several linux distributions in different partitions and using > > labels really simplifies working with them. Problem _I_ had with lables is two RHL's on one box. As I said, poorly implemented. > > Than your case is rather specific case and you belong to group of, hm, > let be generous here, maybe 0.001% of total Linux population? Yeah, I > know, now there will be 10 more guys and girls arguing that there's more Let me see. I plug in USB camera. Shos up at /dev/sda. I add USB drive. Shows up at /dev/sdb. Tomorrow I plug in USB drive. Shows up at /dev/sda I plug in USB camera. Shows up at /dev/sdb. What if I have _two_ USB drives (I do - one for carrying stuff, one for backups)?. A filesystem label would help overcome the confusion. Didn't I read somewhere that sata drives are hdx with 2.4 kernels, sdx with 2.6?. -- Cheers John
