Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 15:22 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
I grow tired of all the Label things going on in Fedora now.
I don't really see why it has to be worse. /dev/hda1 only means
something if I always have *that* drive plugged in as the primary
master. That's fairly likely, but less likely with /dev/sdc1 (if you
have removeable external drives).
When I use "fdisk" to Print the drive hda and hdb and hdc... I want
my label to be what it tells me.
On the contrary, LABEL=fred/boot (where "fred" is what I've called one
of my Seagate drives, and texta-written the name on the drive, itself),
means that I can plug it in anywhere, and find it by that label. I
don't have to figure out if it's attached at /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1,
or /dev/sdd1, and so on. Likewise, LABEL=fred-swap means that it uses
that swap partition, and not the wrong one, on multi-disc systems.
What can the LABEL software do to find the moved hard drive that I
can't? I really do not know how it can do that. Also now days all the
new drives are via USB.
Not using a multi-disc system? Well you're prepared for it in the
future. You might need to plug in another drive to recover some data,
and you've one less headache to sort out, *then*.
My original fstab looks like this:
LABEL=/1234 / ext3 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=+`àQñGM@O2RÕ{ÏA swap swap defaults 0 0
LABEL=ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ swap swap defaults 0 0
The swap listings were ugly!
Label things yourself. Read man mkswap.
I will read man mkswap and hold things open until I understand
that... :-)
...[snip fstab and grub.conf using device names instead of labels]...
I have rebooted with all these changes and it comes up just as well
as always. Unless someone thinks this is real bad I will continue with
the project.
In themselves, that's fine. I've done the same in the past. The
problems you *may* come across are when you have to plug another drive
in, at the same time, or plug this drive in another place.
Karl
