On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: |Kingsly John wrote: | |> 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 :).
What if I have two or more installs of Redhat on the same hard disk ? .. I have such a setup on my machine (one to test out apps for clients) but I have used a single 2GB partition for the second install ... but if I wanted multi partition installs.. then the /usr partition of both the installs will be labeled "/usr" .. which one will be mounted by which distro ?? /dev/hdaX will anyday be a more unique identifier than a "/usr" "/tmp" label ! Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
