On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:51:20 +0100, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I don't understand label in this context. Where is it set? This was explained by Florian Kulzer earlier in this thread. (It was such a good explanation I kept it for future reference!) On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:00 +0200, Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You can use UUIDs or labels to refer to the partitions. This is > robust if a newer kernel changes the device nodes (e.g. from /dev/hda to > /dev/sda). You can use the "blkid" utility to find out the UUIDs of your > partitions, or you can set your own labels with e2label (and mkswap -L > for the swap partition). > > To give you an example, I labeled my root partition "root" and this is > the corresponding fstab entry: > > LABEL=root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > If you want to use UUIDs then the syntax is "UUID=....". -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
