On Monday 24 January 2005 00:20, Jeff Vian wrote: >On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 14:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 23 January 2005 11:28, Prudhvi Krishna Surapaneni wrote: >> >then what will be the "/" partition on the second Linux OS >> >> If its a seperate partition, it will still be named / in that >> installs /etc/fstab. > >Correct, The filesystem will be named the same, but the LABEL will > not be the same. > IF you use labels in th fstabs. My normal kernel builds do not use an initrd, so I usually convert the labels to /dev/hdax/hdbx/etc asap and build the filesystems into the kernel. I've been bit by the labels just enough to be a bit wary of using them to the point where one loses the /dev/hdx# identity totally. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
