Let me first say this: I don't want to start another heated
discussion about whether to use LABELs in fstab or not. We've beaten
that poor horse into a little greasy spot many times before, and that's
not the intention of this message.
Now, what I'd like to know is the following: Yesterday I did a
clean FC5 install on a server (that had FC3), while retaining the drive
layout. Whatever the partitions were prior to the install, I kept them
and just reformatted every single one of them. When all was said and
done and the system was up and running, I noticed that all the LABEL
information on all the partitions had a '1' appended to them.
For example, before the reinstall I had the following defined:
/dev/hda1 LABEL=/ mounted as /
/dev/hda2 LABEL=/home mounted as /home
etc.
After the clean install, they are now:
/dev/hda1 LABEL=/1 mounted as /
/dev/hda2 LABEL=/home1 mounted as /home
This is now the second time I've noticed this. The first time I
thought it was just a fluke, but it's now been recreated and I'm just
baffled by it. Why does Fedora append that '1' - and what happens if I
did another reinstall at some time in the future. Will it append
another '1' (making it /11 and /home11) or will it increment it to '2'
(/2 and /home2) ?
In a way it doesn't really matter since they're still mounted
correctly (besides I've already changed them and removed the '1', as
well as fix grub.conf too), but I'm just wondering WHY it does that.
Inquiring minds want to know.
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