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The Friday 2007-09-14 at 00:06 -0400, Peter Sjoberg wrote:

> > It must be a mess. And how 
> > about naming volumes, they all have to be unique no? 
> > So what does /etc 
> > or /var or whatever become when you install. Or do you just make disk1p5 
> > and 
> > disk1p6 large enough to hold everything? And what about ubuntuor fedora or 
> > whatever. They all have /home, /var, etc. etc.
> If you think about it, it's not that much different then when using
> plain partitions. When you have one disk you are forced to call every
> partition sda1, sda2 and so on up to sda15. If you now install 4
> different os versions, how do you keep track of what partition that
> is /var for each os?

You can label plain partitions, and use the label for mounting instead of 
the device name. In fstab:

LABEL=320_home1        /home     xfs        noatime,nodiratime                  
    1 2
LABEL=320_home2        /home2    reiserfs   
noatime,nodiratime,user,acl,user_xattr  1 2

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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