Tim: >> The only real problem I encounter with labels is when there's a >> duplicated label name added to a system. Les Mikesell: > And after you've used fedora for a while, this will be _every_ time you > move a disk around to a different system. I saw the potential for that problem, long ago. So I planned ahead. I name my drives *and* the partitions in the labels. I texta the name on the drive, to make my life easier. e.g. Call a drive "john", and include that in the labels, like "john/boot", "john/home" (or "john-home", using hyphens instead of dashes). It means I can find the right drives for the right partitions, if moving things about in the box. I preferred the idea of john/home rather than john-home, as it seemed more like how the mounted tree would end up. But discovered that if you plugged a drive into a USB enclosure with a slash in the label, it wouldn't use your label in the mount point, it was just /media/disk On the other hand, if you used mount points like /dev/sda, and move things about, you can easily end up having to untangle the mess of what moved to where. I've been through that before, and it's much easier with unique labels than mounting partitions, one by one, to find which is the one you're after. -- (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.
