On 5/29/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2005 14:02:03 -0700 > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does udev somehow not support mounting by label????? > > > > It's needs the device - /dev/hdxx defined somewhere. Normally this is defined > in /etc/fstab. I'd guess that somewhere along the way, the labels were > defined > in a devfs conf file on the system, thus it appeared devfs was auto-magically > working > with labels. You could probably define labels for udev if you really wanted > to. >
Partition labels are placed on partitions when you make the file system: mke2fs -j -L TVstorage /dev/sdb2 (Assumes a file system that supports labels.) Then you can read the label using e2label /dev/sdb2 When booting if the fstab file has LABEL=TVstorage /TVdata then it mounts the first partition it finds with the lable TVstorage at the mount point /TVdata > > Just add the partitions to /etc/fstab - > > /dev/sda3 / (and the rest of the line) > /dev/sda8 /home/herb (and the rest of the line) > /dev/sda6 /usr/portage (and the rest of the line) > /dev/sdb2 /TVstorage (and the rest of the line) > > Bob This is, unfortunately, a very bad idea for removable media. What was sdb2 today will become sdc2 tomorrow and the suggestion you make will not work. I'm having a fun time with this machine since I switched to udev. Twice today the partitions did not mount using the LABEL method but 3 times they did. I guess it works, but not always... Thanks for writing back. Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
