Yet another futuristic wishlist item

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 13:50, Thomas Hille wrote:
> Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Miloslav Trmac um 16:29:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:45:56PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > Can't we change the default partition labels from "/", "/home",
> > > ... to something like "mces:/", "mces:/home", ... where "mces" is
> > > the machine name?  It would reduce the glitch when connecting two
> > > hard disks both with FC installed to a single machine.
> > We have only 16 characters in the label. That can be tight even
> > without the hostname.
> > 	Mirek
> 
> Nevertheless this is an issue. Some days ago I installed the hd of
> another pc into my own. But fc mounts the last "/" partition it finds -
> ie on the highest drive. That is obviously always the wrong in the case
> when there are two. The only way to avoid mounting the wrong partition
> was to remove all that labeling stuff and use plain /dev/hda1 style
> entries in the fstab.
> 
> Maybe we should drop using labels at all? To be honest I don't know what
> they are good for anyway. Or instead of using the hostname use a random
> number? Other suggestions maybe?
Atleast not the hostname. I would rather not have remember to update the
label when I set/change the hostname.