Installation changing the Partition Label

[John M Cavallo]

On Friday 28 March 2008 01:23:50 am Andrew Farris wrote:
> 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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The problem isn't with Fedora 9, it with the other installations of Fedora on 
that computer. They use the previous standard of LABEL=??? and fail to boot. 
I thought that previous versions of the installer would honor the existing 
labels, at least I have never noticed this problem before.

I was mistaken about Fedora 9 failing to boot, there was another problem which 
I have since cleared up.