> > I've messed up by not giving things > > different labels. Does that sound right? > > It's conceivable. Another possibility is that the disk or filesystem has > serious errors and the kernel is quickly marking it read-only so as > avoid further corruption. If that's the case how would I know? Remember it was running perfectly until i installed ubuntu - which still runs fine. > > > but on to FC4... > > > > When I install FC4 shall I make sure each partition has a unique > > label? Like / could be Label=fc4-base or something? > > If you're doing an upgrade, anaconda will probably leave the filesystem > labels as they are. If you delete the existing partitions and create new > ones, anaconda will not (I believe) create partition labels that are > duplicates of existing partition labels. I don't think you get to > specify what the partition labels are. Well I can in qtparted - so shall I? Then I could make label=/fc and /home-fc etc. I would make it easier for me, but does it effect anything else? Duncan
