Proposal for New Installation Features
Browder, Tom
Tom.Browder at fwb.srs.com
Wed Jun 6 22:09:07 UTC 2007
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>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 15:10
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: Re: Proposal for New Installation Features
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>The partition label (old mount point) is reported on the popup
>where you select the new mount point. I was pleased to see
>that in F7, that applies to LVM volumes as well. If you stick
>with the Fedora default labels, you should be OK there, but
>there have been other discussions about whether the mount
>point is the right thing to put in the label.
Since reading more about labels for F7 I've labeled my existing systems
something like this:
device label mount point
------ ----- -----------
/dev/sda1 disk1boot /boot
/dev/sda3 disk1root /
/dev/sdb1 disk2usrlocal /usr/local
When I try to install, anaconda reports the labels correctly, and when I
select the proper mount point and have / and /boot reformatted, the
labels get changed to:
device label mount point
------ ----- -----------
/dev/sda1 /boot /boot
/dev/sda3 / /
/dev/sdb1 disk2usrlocal /usr/local # no change
My desire is to keep my old partition labels because I move disks around
a lot and a unique label for existsing partitions, whether or not I
reformatted the disk, would be useful in many cases.
-Tom
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