On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 13:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Assume you are in the IT dept for some group and you are used > to being able to re-use disks in different machines and to > recover data from any disk by installing/mounting in any working > machine. Now you find that any combination of disks from > default fedora/RH/Centos installs won't boot... It is a > problem. Put it in a USB2 housing. Then it doesn't matter - FC5 doesn't use fstab when mounting a USB disk (well, I haven't tried connected at boot). It doesn't use the LABEL either. Mounts just fine - even if another disk with that LABEL exists - allowing you to do all the recovery you want. Yes, I've done this.
