A FC6 suggestion.

[Kam Leo]

On 5/5/06, Mauriat Miranda <mirandam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > In the latest Linux Journal in the etc/rant column the author makes an
> > interesting suggestion that I think the Fedora people should consider.
> > He points out the problem of associating entries in the fstab file with
> > a LABEL-/. If one runs more than one Linux version more than one
> > partition  might have this label.
> >
> > I would like to make the suggestion that the Default Label be more
> > descriptive. The author suggests something like FC%32ROOT.
>
> I question if this necessary. You can have entries in fstab with or
> without labels. I've had 3 single Fedora installations on single drive
> across multiple partitions and never have run into a problem in the
> installer or usage nor have I had to manually edit fstab for this. I
> think in Anaconda the labels will start shifting to /1, /2, /home1
> etc. Since at runtime you don't deal with partition labels, just their
> mount points, it really is not a serious concern.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> -Mauriat
>

Your horizon is too narrow, i.e. Fedora centric. Try installing other
distros on your system to appreciate the problem.