On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Now, let me ask the other question I've muttered about. I'm currently >> running 2.6.24-rc5 here, home built of course. >> >> In the kernel config, I don't see an option I can set that will switch it >> from >> using the ide drivers to using the libata stuff. This of course will mean >> I have to label everything in the system with tune2fs and edit my fstab >> and grub.conf as I go, but it seems to me that would solve my cross >> mounting >> problems a lot cleaner than futzing with everything else. So how do I >> enable these new libata operations in a locally built kernel? >> >> That is tonight's question. > >It seems to me that there are two quite separate issues here - >LABELing partitions, and using libata. >You can use LABELs with the old ide setup, >and it seems to me more sensible to do that first. > >Incidentally, is tune2fs ths normal way to label partitions? >I always use e2label. tune2fs I think is the swiss army knife tool. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <liiwi> so, what's the official way to get buildd to retry a package? prod it with a stick? <Joey> prod neuro <liiwi> with a stick? <Joey> yes.