<div>On 9/28/07, Kevin J. Cummings <<a href="mailto:cummings@kjchome.homeip.net">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Aldo Foot wrote: > On 9/28/07, R. G. Newbury <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote: >> >> Fedora 8rc2 like Fedora 6 and 7 uses labels in fstab. >> >> Anyone have any thoughts on what happens if I just replace the labels >> with /dev/sdaXX references? >> >> -- >> R. Geoffrey Newbury > > > I'm also in the habit of replacing the labels with /dev/sdaXX and the system > behaves normally. But I notice that when the system boots it references the > original labels. What references the original labels? > Where in the system are these labels "stored" for the system to find them? I suspect it is grub. Have you looked at your grub.conf file? > ~Aldo. -- Kevin J. Cummings <a href="mailto:kjchome@rcn.com">kjchome@rcn.com</a> <a href="mailto:cummings@kjchome.homeip.net"> cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</a> <a href="mailto:cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us">cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us</a> Registered Linux User #1232 (<a href="http://counter.li.org">http://counter.li.org</a>) </blockquote> </div>Yes. I have. Normally you see the root label in grub.conf. I'm ok with that. But I had a /usr/local and changed its label to the /dev/sdaXX in fstab, but at boot time the system would display /usr/local1... so I don't know where that was coming from. ~Aldo.