Learned something new


Subject: Learned something new
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 15:16:57 AKST


I found out today what the "label" entry in a fstab means. Here is an
example:

label=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1

The label=/ is a reference to the disk label on the drive. So if for
example you need to move root to /dev/hdb1 for some reason, you can label
the drive with:

e2label /dev/hdb1 /

And this will label that partition with / (it could be anything <16 chars)

when the machine boots up and reads the fstab, it will locate the root drive
as being the drive with the label /

You could change the fstab to look like this:

label=mike / ext2 defaults 1 1

Then run the e2label program:

e2label /dev/hdc1 mike

It would try and mount /dev/hdc1 as root.

Maybe someone with more experience can show how this is practical.

Mike



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