Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 08:30 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>
>> It might be handy for some users if DD read the labels on existing
>> filesystems and proposed an association, but then again, for other users,
>> it might not.
>>
>
> DD does do that.  If the partition was previously installed and labeled
> as /boot it tells you that.
> I use that feature to be sure I am putting things where I want when I do
> a reinstall.  It also helps to determine what to format or not.

IIRC, DD does tell you what the label is when you edit the partition, but 
it does not assign the label to the partition when you first hit the main 
screen.  My memory says that you have to edit each partition and select 
the label by hand, although the old label is reported as a hint.  (Of 
course, my memory could be wrong...)  My suggestion was that existing 
labels be assigned by default.

One annoying thing is that the labels in LVM don't correspond to the 
filesystems, so I always have trouble remembering which of two identically 
sized LVs is /usr/local and which is /opt.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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