A FC6 suggestion.

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:14, Filippos Klironomos wrote:
> One command man:
> 
> e2label /dev/hd# <new label>
> 
> I understand your problem, had a similar one in fact when installed
> FC5 on to of WinXP but wanted
> to keep the old FC4 partition for data storage. It showed as '/' while
> the original root showed as /1. 
> 
> e2label will fix this for you! But remember to edit
> /boot/grub/grub.conf and change the kernel arguments
> as well! :-)

Note that the machine won't boot to allow you to do this
command...  You have to dig out some kind of rescue boot
media.  And apparently this was someone's idea of making
things easier.

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  Les Mikesell
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