Can I control Volume Labels during System Build?

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 08/06/08 01:41, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 00:21 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> Since I have different system versions on my disks I would like to control the 
>> various volume labels rather than having anaconda pick their names. For example 
>> my F8 system would get labels like /F8/boot, the F9 system would then have 
>> labels like /F9/boot etc. However, anaconda picks its own strange system which 
>> you can't change afterwards because the anaconda generated labels show up in 
>> grub.conf and initrd.<kernel version>.img and maybe other places.
>>
>> So my question is: Is it at all possible to give the system partitions labels 
>> after my own scheme and how? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I started the installation, but before it gets around to the
> partitioning your drives section, CTRL+ALT+Fn around to find a console
> that I could enter commands in, then used fdisk to pre-partition my
> drive as I wanted, and used mkfs to format partitions and give them
> label names as per my own preferences, likewise with mkswap.  I also
> used the options to check the drives during the formatting, which does
> make things take longer, but I'd like to find out about faults now
> rather than later.  Then I CTRL+ALT+Fn to go back to the install
> routine, pick the custom drive layout option, and select my prepared
> partitions for specific mountpoints, and make sure that they're not set
> to be formatted.

Thanks. I suppose I could do this with the current system before building a new so I don't have to do it in the midst of anaconda.
> 
> The fstab and grub files use UUIDs to refer to partition, they're
> automatically created when you create partitions, and the system works
> them out for you.  You don't have to use them though, you can change
> your mount point definitions from referring to UUIDs to referring to
> labels.
> 
> You can use the blkid command to see a table of which device, UUID and
> volume labels refer to each other, when it comes to re-writing your
> grub.conf and fstab files.
> 
blkid is quite nifty. I didn't know it before you told me. Thanks for that.

-- 
Erik.