On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 08:30 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
It might be handy for some users if DD read the labels on existing filesystems and proposed an association, but then again, for other users, it might not.
DD does do that. If the partition was previously installed and labeled as /boot it tells you that. I use that feature to be sure I am putting things where I want when I do a reinstall. It also helps to determine what to format or not.
IIRC, DD does tell you what the label is when you edit the partition, but it does not assign the label to the partition when you first hit the main screen. My memory says that you have to edit each partition and select the label by hand, although the old label is reported as a hint. (Of course, my memory could be wrong...) My suggestion was that existing labels be assigned by default.
One annoying thing is that the labels in LVM don't correspond to the filesystems, so I always have trouble remembering which of two identically sized LVs is /usr/local and which is /opt.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
