Rant on LABELs

Sean Middleditch elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Tue Sep 28 00:55:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:51 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 06:50 pm, Chris Adams wrote:

> > The Red Hat kernels don't support mounting root by label either.  You
> > shouldn't rant about something when you don't understand what you are
> > ranting about.
> 
> Hello, Everyone :)
> I was kind of confused by the above statement.  So I looked at my /etc/fstab, 
> and I found the following:
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1

Kernels don't read fstab.  The user space tools do.  You don't need to
modify the kernel at all to use mount by label or to lookup the root fs
by label - that's all done by the user space tools on both the main
system and the initrd images.

> 
> I am running Fedora Core 2, with the latest Fedora Core 2 kernel.
> 
> Steven P. Ulrick
> 




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