problems upgrading from FC6 to F7
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Jun 25 15:04:32 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 13:55 -0400, Marc wrote:
>> No I haven't used any labels. I haven't done anything; I am just
>> trying to do an upgrade. My FC6 may have labels, I don't know.
>
> It does, by default. So unless you went in and modified things, you've
> got them. They're, generally, a good thing, but you get problems if you
> try to add another OS (whether by another drive, or more partitions on
> one drive) if the labels are not unique.
Looking at /etc/fstab will tell you whether or not you have labels
and/or are using them to mount your partitions. vol_id is a useful tool
to let you see if *any* partition has a label at all. Including your
swap partitions. I found it seems to have moved between my FC5 machine
(where it is in /sbin/vol_id) and my FC6 machin (where I found it in
/lib/udev/vol_id).
I'm getting my FC5 system ready for its impending F-7 upgrade, and I
read the F-7 release notes first looking for "gotchas". This was the
biggest one I saw that would affect me. So far, I've rebooted once
successfully with data partition labels, and I've just labeled my swap
partitions and successfully re-enabled them with "swapon -a", so I
should be all set here now. My /etc/fstab now uses labels for all my
local mounts.
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Kevin J. Cummings
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cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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