Understanding partition labels...
Alexander Dalloz
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Sat Mar 19 22:04:28 UTC 2005
Am Sa, den 19.03.2005 schrieb cjlesh um 22:49:
> I'm trying to figure out a simple way to dual boot FC3 and rawhide...and ran into a problem with partition labels.
>
> Could anyone point me in the direction of some reading material on the subject? I can't seem to google anything useful...
>
> Some basic questions...
>
> How are partition labels set?
e2label --> man e2label
or
tune2fs -L
> Can the be displayed from the command line?
See above.
> Can they be changed once they are set?
See too above.
> What happens when there are two paritions with the same label?(I think this happened to me when I tried to install Rawhide).
Yes, that is a problem and causes confusion. The second found partition
with the same label as the first one is mounted instead of the the
correct one.
> Can I change fstab and grub to not use them?
Yes, you can and you will have to to avoid doubled labels. But normally
a second Fedora install should take care for existing labels and for
instance create LABEL=/ as LABEL=/1.
> -cjl
Alexander
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