Kingsly John wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
>  |I believe partitions can be labelled. The new RedHat versions use LABELS
>  |to refer  to partitions instead of /dev/sda1 and things like that.
> 
> It's filesystems that can be "Label"ed ... and not partitions(and not all
> filesystems acan be labeled (IIRC Reiserfs doesn't support it)) ...
> personally I think RH's way of using the labels in fstab is dumb.. it
> might make the fstab look less geeky ... but what happens if you install
> two distros of linux on the same hard disk ?? and you get two filesystems
> with the same "label" ??



Umm RedHat labels it according to the mount point. The others I assume 
dont use labels at all so if you were to do it manually I am sure you 
would be checking as to what the rest are labelled and what are the 
entries in your /etc/fstab :).





Mithun


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