Mount labels in fstab?

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Wed Jun 6 11:44:47 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>> When I went to do my F7 upgrade from FC6 at home I got a strange error,
>> the system crapped out on the upgrade complaining about not having a
>> label in /etc/fstab for one of my mount points (/dev/hdb2) even though
>> that mount point is only for backups and isn't an integral part of the
>> system.  What's the deal and why is this a requirement now?
> 
> See the section on labels in
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Installer.html

I think I had a problem labelling the swap partition.
Is this necessary?
And if so, can it be done with swap on?

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