something I don't understand

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 22:00 +0530, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new
> partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after
> creating it with fdisk. I run
> 
> mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax
> 
> then added this line in fstab:
> 
> LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2

Ignoring the modifying the fstab for a minute. Others have addressed
this. The label of a disk can be set or modified by tunefs command.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>