Re: forgot to mount /home during installation

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Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

Cool, that worked perfectly. I have no idea why it worked, but it did...=) Hehe, I'm just a little mystified as to why I didn't have to specify a
device...or why not device was specified for / and /boot.


Thanks.

I bet that for / and /boot , you had something like
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 2
(or something like that.. I'm doing this from my memory).. During boot up (and other mount requests) , if a device is
reffered to as LABEL=something in /etc/fstab , the system automatically tries to map the label to the corresponding device.. If the label exists,
the device is mounted.. If it doesnt , you end up with a big bad error... Something very handy if you for some reason need to change the disk to another controller , for example...


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Pedro Macedo


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