A curse on LABEL=
John Arthur
lists at davey.net.au
Sat Apr 10 00:42:06 UTC 2004
> I personally don't like the LABEL feature... Makes it real hard to
> retrieve data from a drive if you put it in another system :(
>
Actually that is real easy to get around. Customise your labels
Whenever I build a system the first thing I do is this...
Machine name is "alpha.mydomain.com"
1/. Change the label on every partition from
/ to alpha/
/boot to alpha/boot
/home to alpha/home
/usr to alpha/home
and so on for all partitions
2/. change fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
to
LABEL=alpha/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
********************************************
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 1
to
LABEL=alpha/boot alpha/boot ext3 defaults 1 1
and so on for all partitions
3/. edit grub.conf and change ....
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=/ apm=power-off
to
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=alpha/ apm=power-off
4/. Sometimes I'll run mkinitrd
Now I have all the advantages of LABEL= and none of the problems.
Certianly no problems taking a drive from another system and adding
it to mine to retrieve any data.
It just would be nice if the installer did this instead of using
generic labels.
John
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