Hi Shino, You can still label your hardisk using the command e2label. The syntax is
e2label device-name label e2label /dev/sda2 SLASH then open /etc/fstab -> and edit the lines for eg: LABEL=SLASH / ext3 defaults 1 1 then open grub.conf and edit the Label field to newlabel NOTE: Please make sure that you have this checked on any test machine before. Just for the safer side. But this should work fine. Labeling the existing partitions should be easy. Else if anything goes wrong you can get into rescue mode and change everything back..... (for this take backup of all the related files) Regards Dheep Surendran Linux Engineer. On Mar 3, 9:24 am, Shino Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
