On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mike Watson wrote: > Use "LABELS" for each partition. This makes moving drives around easier.
Until you have several partitions with the same labels and mount the "wrongs" ones :o) That is one of the advantages of labelling, though, yes. They are not a panacaea though. For example, I currently have two hard drives and two CDs (one reader, one writer) as hd[aceg]. If I were to plug another disk in to move some data around, and if there were a "/home" label on the disk I plugged in, I'd be a bit stuffed (the wrong one would get mounted). So, there are no labels in my /etc/fstab (if I'm moving a disk, I have ample warning to change it and if the worst comes to the worst, I can boot off a CD and change it to get everything to mount properly). If you're copying a partition to a new disk and you want it to be mounted correctly, you'd have to change at least one label (on the old disk) anyway; and if you're shifting a directory tree off one disk and creating a new partition for it, you'd have to create the new entry in /etc/fstab. So I don't think you actually save any effort by using labels in many cases. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
