Jim Christiansen wrote: > I have sort of a regular method upgrading my Redhat/FC servers by using > two drives and multiple partitions. My usual habit for upgrading > systems is to recable my old and working master to slave and the old > slave to master and at install not to reformate the old master- I just > relabel it as /old-slash. > > After everything settles down I clear off the /old-slash in stages and > then write an rsync script to take my new homes across at midnight > everyday... > > I'm getting tired of seeing /old-slash show up in the root of my file > system. > > I'm using FC5 now and want to rename /old-slash to something less boring > :-) - maybe /backup or maybe /rsync-drive... > > Does anyone know how to do this?? I've searched around but not found > anything clear yet. > > Thanks, Jim > > if your /etc/fstab uses a line similar to this: LABEL=/old-slash /old-slash ~other settings~ then you know that the filesystem label is "/old-slash" and you can use "tune2fs -L /backup" to change it. you will then need to create your new "/backup" mountpoint andedit /etc/fstab to look like this: LABEL=/backup /backup ~other settings~ and as always: man tune2fs first so you know exactly what you'll be doing. -- Anthony Website: http://messinet.com Gallery: http://gallery.messinet.com/main.php?g2_itemId=34 GnuPG Key / Fingerprint: 0xB0014A4E / 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E Registered Linux User #389089 - Get counted!: http://counter.li.org
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