Installation changing the Partition Label

[Andrew Farris]

John M Cavallo wrote:
> When installing Fedora 9 onto an existing partition that already has a label, 
> the installer will change the label to "/". If there is an existing partition 
> with this label the system will fail to boot. If there is an existing 
> installation on the computer that uses the labels in its fstab, it will fail 
> to boot as well. Could the custom partition editor either keep the existing 
> label or allow the user to set the partition label with the existing label as 
> a default?

The F9 system /etc/fstab should have had UUIDs rather than labels specified to 
mount the partitions.  Is that not the case after your install?  Having two 
partitions labeled '/' should work fine.

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