On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:00:49 -0500 Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 22:00 +0530, François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new > > partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after > > creating it with fdisk. I run > > > > mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax > > > > then added this line in fstab: > > > > LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2 > > Ignoring the modifying the fstab for a minute. Others have addressed > this. The label of a disk can be set or modified by tunefs command. I think you meant the tune2fs command For the OP: as root do tune2fs -L <label-name> <device> eg: tune2fs -L /home /dev/hde1 Myles -- How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb? "Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."
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