t4 upgrade from fc6: fails on lvm fstab naming

sean seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Fri May 25 14:48:41 UTC 2007


Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:54:17AM -0400, sean wrote:
>> But my real point, is why does install insist on a LABEL? 
>> The /dev naming convention works fine with the new kernel. 
> 
> LABELs never change unexpectedly.  /dev names can change unexpectedly, 
> although with LVM this is less likely than without.
> 
>> Also, system-config-lvm has no option to provide a LABEL.
> 
> Neither does fdisk.  Does system-config-lvm have an option to format a 
> filesystem?
> 
Maybe, but that wouldn't help with an existing partition. If 
we're looking to make upgrading easy, the user shouldn't 
have to reformat a partition.

sean




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