On Fri, May 8, 2020, 12:34 Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 09:59 -0400, Default User wrote: > > Hi David. > > > > Yes, I made the labels for the partitions during the original > > installation: > > > > /dev/sda1 = / (primary partition) > > /dev/sda2 = (extended partition) > > /dev/sda5 = swap (logical partition) > > /dev/sda6 = /home (logical partition) > > > > So /dev/sda2 has no label, as it is just an extended partition, which > > "holds" logical partitions: > > /dev/sda5 > > /dev/sda6 > > It strikes me that using '/' in a label might cause problems. E.g. > something (kernel? udev?) makes disks appear under /dev/disk/by-label/ > where each entry is the label name. If that label contains a '/' then > it can't appear there, or if it does, it will have a mangled name to > remove the '/'. > > -- > Tixy >
Question to all: Maybe I am getting ahead of myself, but I wonder - what would happen if I just either deleted the entire /dev/disk directory, or at least some part(s) of it. After all, it just seems to be full of various zero-byte files. Would the /dev/disk directory just rebuild itself upon reboot, hopefully with "correct" files?
