Label's and things

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 15:22 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> I grow tired of all the Label things going on in Fedora now.
>>     
>
> I don't really see why it has to be worse.  /dev/hda1 only means
> something if I always have *that* drive plugged in as the primary
> master.  That's fairly likely, but less likely with /dev/sdc1 (if you
> have removeable external drives).
>   
    When I use "fdisk" to Print the drive hda and hdb and hdc... I want 
my label to be what it tells me.


> On the contrary, LABEL=fred/boot (where "fred" is what I've called one
> of my Seagate drives, and texta-written the name on the drive, itself),
> means that I can plug it in anywhere, and find it by that label.  I
> don't have to figure out if it's attached at /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1,
> or /dev/sdd1, and so on.  Likewise, LABEL=fred-swap means that it uses
> that swap partition, and not the wrong one, on multi-disc systems.
>   
    What can the LABEL software do to find the moved hard drive that I 
can't? I really do not know how it can do that. Also now days all the 
new drives are via USB.


> Not using a multi-disc system?  Well you're prepared for it in the
> future.  You might need to plug in another drive to recover some data,
> and you've one less headache to sort out, *then*.
>
>   
>>     My original fstab looks like this:
>>
>> LABEL=/1234             /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
>> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
>> LABEL=+`àQñGM at O2RÕ{ÏA   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>> LABEL=ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>>
>> The swap listings were ugly!
>>     
>
> Label things yourself.  Read man mkswap.
>
>   
    I will read man mkswap and hold things open until I understand 
that... :-)

> ...[snip fstab and grub.conf using device names instead of labels]...
>
>   
>>     I have rebooted with all these changes and it comes up just as well 
>> as always. Unless someone thinks this is real bad I will continue with 
>> the project.
>>     
>
> In themselves, that's fine.  I've done the same in the past.  The
> problems you *may* come across are when you have to plug another drive
> in, at the same time, or plug this drive in another place.
>
>   

Karl