On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 05:14 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > The original label in fstab was 123456 for the root directory > and it was the swap directorys that had the worst long labels. This is > important because the label on the swap partition is wrong! I've seen dual boot systems change things slightly, so each partition is unique. e.g. Your first system had /boot/, /home/, etc., and the next installation was /boot1/, /home1/, etc. But 123456 seems a bit extreme. Have you done multiple installs/upgrades on top of each other, or have a multiboot system? > So those long nonsense labels for the swap partitions are what > caused my swap to not work. This is a bug for anaconda. Hmm, doesn't matter what they actually are, so long as they're used consistently, and according to whatever rules apply to the names. But it's certainly more user-friendly to have a label you've got some chance at being able to easily type in. > I opt for a manual partition setup. I dislike the LWN idea as > being too complex and uncontroled. It must be this that messes up > anaconda. I, too, dislike the LVM idea. How did you manually partition, though? I used fdisk to carve up the drives, then provided labels when I did a mkfs.ext3 on the main partitions, provided labels with the mkswap command, and use e2label on anything that need's tweaking, later on. (Divide them up and call them names, mildly amusing...) I did it from the install disc, I CTRL+ALT+Fsomething to get to a console before the install routine got to the partitioning the disc section, then went back to the routine after my custom drive prepping. Using the install routine's manual partitioning to *pick* the partitions it'll install to, but not reformatting them. I did it in that manner because the install routine doesn't give me an option to type what *I* wanted to use as the volume labels. That's important for multiboot or multidrive systems. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, 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.
