On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 21 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:58 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > The other possible way would be to give your devices unique names, > > > > either via udev or by using LVM. Advantage over UUIDs: much easier to > > > > read. > > > > > > Or you could use filesystem labels. > > > > I've used filesystem labels for a long time and generally it works > > really well. Only problem I've had is my Dad's machine has a Maxtor > > 1-touch 1394 drive. It seems that often it doesn't get recognized by > > the 1394 subsystem fast enough to satisfy whatever requirements the > > Gentoo scripts have for the label being readable so it doesn't > > reliably get recognized every time. > > I have thought about using labels, but never really ventured into it (I think > I tried it once on a server). Can I do it retrospectively on ext2, reiserfs > and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the partition? > -- > Regards, > Mick >
Yep. I use e2label. Works fine with ext2 and ext3 partitions. One command to read the label, another to write it. Easy. - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
