On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 10:27 +0000, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Fedora 8rc2 like Fedora 6 and 7 uses labels in fstab. > > Anyone have any thoughts on what happens if I just replace the labels > with /dev/sdaXX references? It'll work if you use the right ones, just the same as prior versions. But some problems being: If you're updating a system, and your old fstab used /dev/hda style device names, you need to change things around during the update process to the new system. If you have removable drives, and you don't always boot up with the same drives attached, some device names *may* change (i.e. /dev/sdc may refer to another device, now). All hard drives are now referred to as SCSI. i.e. what was /dev/hda is probably now /dev/sda, the prior gotcha notwithstanding (device names changing). Before, that would only have been an issue with people using SCSI drives, IDE device names wouldn't have been changed around by other things. And you have to figure out which drive is which. With labels, you only had to do that the once, thereafter the label would always refer to the same drive/partition, whereever it was attached. But why do you want to do this? The only real problem I encounter with labels is when there's a duplicated label name added to a system. There really needs to be some way for the user to step in an intervene before a device gets mounted, in that circumstance, so you can keep the one you need, and tweak the additional one. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
