On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 17:29, david smethurst wrote: > hi all > i have mounted a second hdd which i installed fc3 > on my old drive i had fc2 > it wont mount the two drives obviously as both drives have the > same /boot, /, > how can i change the name of the second drive partitions so that they > will not conflict with the first > i have sda/1/2, sdb/1/2 Fedora and RedHat use labels to identify disk partitions. Unfortunately they don't do anything to even try to make the labels unique to an installation so if you plug another disk in containing another copy the system will refuse to boot. One way to fix it is to edit /etc/fstab, changing the LABEL=name on the left of the lines to the device partition names (/dev/sda1 for example). You also have to edit /etc/grub.conf and change the root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/sdxx (the partition name for the root mount point). Note, however that the partition names are determined at boot time by the order that disks are detected so adding a new drive or controller can also break this scheme. You could also use the e2label command to change one set of partition labels. Either way you should be able to make your system dual-boot if you want by putting an entry for the 2nd drive in grub.conf and changing the /etc/fstab file found there. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx