On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 11:44 +0100, John bowden wrote: > I do a lot of drive swapping, got a number of machines on my network > to play with and always getting hold of second hand drives to play > around with. If you like swapping drives, especially between Linux system, do your partitioning of drives outside of the Fedora installation process so that you can give the partitions unique labels. In the past I had to relabel some partitions so that I could plug in another drive without conflicts (having two /home labels doesn't work, for instance, likewise for other mount points). Which meant relabelling, editing fstab, and rebooting. And some fussing about to make the swap partition with a name I wanted (hda7-swap is stupid if the drive is actually sdc). This time, I did it before installing. I named the drive (with texta), and used that as a prefix with the partition labels. So the /boot mount point has a label of fred/boot rather than just /boot, and so on. They're mounted on the tree, as usual (as /boot, and so on), but the labels are unique (other drives have other names, or no prefixes). Now I can easily mount fred/home, no matter where the drive is plugged in, with a commmand like "mount -L fred/home /home". I don't have to work out if it's /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, nor sda3 or sda6. -- (This box runs Centos 5.0, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & 7, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
