Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 13:55 -0400, Marc wrote: >> No I haven't used any labels. I haven't done anything; I am just >> trying to do an upgrade. My FC6 may have labels, I don't know. > > It does, by default. So unless you went in and modified things, you've > got them. They're, generally, a good thing, but you get problems if you > try to add another OS (whether by another drive, or more partitions on > one drive) if the labels are not unique. Looking at /etc/fstab will tell you whether or not you have labels and/or are using them to mount your partitions. vol_id is a useful tool to let you see if *any* partition has a label at all. Including your swap partitions. I found it seems to have moved between my FC5 machine (where it is in /sbin/vol_id) and my FC6 machin (where I found it in /lib/udev/vol_id). I'm getting my FC5 system ready for its impending F-7 upgrade, and I read the F-7 release notes first looking for "gotchas". This was the biggest one I saw that would affect me. So far, I've rebooted once successfully with data partition labels, and I've just labeled my swap partitions and successfully re-enabled them with "swapon -a", so I should be all set here now. My /etc/fstab now uses labels for all my local mounts. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
