fstab and LABEL=

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 02:33:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 20:47, Tim wrote:

> I do wish things were done more like how it was on the Amiga:  Device
> names were written into the device, as were volume names, and the file
> system (if you wanted it to be).  Plugging the drive into anything meant
> it was labelled and identified the same on any computer.

What happened when you moved drives around or image-copied them
and ended up with two of the same label in the same machine?  Did
it do something reasonable or refuse to boot?   What did it do
with filesystems using different conventions?

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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