so can I still label my hard disk? gparted says it will erase all the data. Any work around?
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:59 PM, bobby dheep <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi sunil, > > > Thats exactly right. It is always better to have your disks using > labelling partition rather than the /dev/sda style. The main advantage > would be in case you are trying to take an image of the hardisk and > loading it to another machine. Here the labelling will work, becoz the > disk ids tend to change. Initially when you install ur system during > the disk partitioning setup just edit the partiton setup to have all > partitions use the label names. Its quite easy. > > > Regards > Dheep Surendran > Linux Engineer > > On Feb 23, 8:45 am, sunil s <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think u require labelling partitions >> in redhat, one command e2label is there for labelling partitions >> I don't know whether any utilities like this are available in other distros >> >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Manilal K M <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > 2009/2/22 Shino Jacob <[email protected]>: >> >> > > I am using ubuntu 8.04 hardy, >> > > I was using only one hard disk. Today I connected one more hard disk, >> > > It took the second hard( connected as primary slave) as sda1. So all >> > > my mappings in /etc/fstab needs to be reworked. >> > > Is there a way to avoid this. ie do not let ubuntu set slave as sda. >> >> > Interchange the HDD ports >> >> > -- >> > Manilal K M : മണിലാല് കെ എം. >> >http://libregeek.blogspot.com > > > -- Miles to go before I Sleep --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
