On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, David Talkington wrote:
> Jack Bowling wrote:
>
> >This brings up something which has been bothering me: as far as I can
> >tell, the standard disk utilities such as fdisk and e2fsck do not
> >understand the LABEL tags for drive assignations. Is it in the plans to
> >enable this ability at all? Seems like it is asking for trouble if
> >somebody gets dropped to a command prompt and doesn't know which
> >partition is mounted where. Myself, I go into fstab and change all the
> >LABEL tags back to dev entries anyway....
>
> I've been told that the change was made so that if a partition is
> added, deleted, or moved, the kernel can still figure out what to
> mount where at boot time. I don't know if that's true or if it works.
> I do know that I don't like it, and find it decidely inconvenient.
using labels for mounting and in /etc/fstab is a *very* good idea,
as i can tell you from personal experience. if you decide to take
an existing partition with an ext2 filesystem and split it in
two for one reason or another, there is a good chance that the
numbering scheme of the existing partitions is going to change.
this will cause all sorts of grief when you next boot as a number
of the entries in /etc/fstab will be wrong.
yes, it may be inconvenient that fdisk doesn't understand labels.
that's a *really* poor reason to change the labels in /etc/fstab
back to the device file names. deal with it, and learn to appreciate
it.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
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