On Sunday 17 June 2007 12:36:43 Tim wrote: > 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. I have got 2 external usb drive enclosures, one is a little 20Gb laptop drive that is formated with FAT32 so I can easily share data with windoz machines, mainly friends that I'm fixing, its great as it takes its power from the usb and a 80GB 3.5" formatted with FS:EXT3 for my Linux machines. But I also tend to get second hand drives and tend to chuck them in under /home/john/johns shareXXMb and let samber share them. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of parliment with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240
