On Friday 14 September 2007 07:41, Carlos E. R. wrote: > 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 > > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R.
OK Peter & Carlos. We shall see. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
