LABEL in grub.conf

[pradeep kumar]

Hi Michael,

        LABEL=/ is the label assigned to your root partition by the system.you can view that in /etc/fstab..
You can see the labels assigned to other partition using the command 
#e2label device-name....

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 Michael Schwendt wrote :
>On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:34:22 -0500, Bill Matthews wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been reading some of the other posts about restore procedures and
> > re-install grub.
> >
> > One question I had is in /boot/grub.conf:
> >
> > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp)
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
> >         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp.img
> >
> > What is the "Label=/"?  How is it created, updated, etc?  It works
> > fine normally, but in some situations of changing drives, etc, it
> > seems to get messed up.  And I have to change root=/dev/sda1 or
> > whatever.
>
>It is a partition label, created with the e2label tool (or
>alternatively with tune2fs.
>
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