Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manon Metten wrote: So I changed fstab, rebooted and found /xyz to be changed to /store. fstab says: /dev/hdb4 /storeext3defaults 0 2 I have access now to /dev/hdb4 by means of the logical mount point /store.

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man hier and the debian policy manual). The FHS is a policy document about what directories

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Thilo Six
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 06.04.2007 02:34: snip a partition lable and a mount point are two totally unrelated things, That´s absolutly correct. almost. Almost because there is a way (I don't do it, so I'll be vague) to use disk lables in fstab to refer to partitions

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Manon Metten
On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manon, This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man hier and the debian policy manual). The FHS is a policy document about what directories can be where and what they're used for. Thanks Doug. I will do

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man hier and the debian policy manual). There are four places within the

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in /mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is the place where other file systems go. That's where my question stems from as to why /mnt and

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in /mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is the place where other

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 18:12 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in /mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is the place where

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] On early BSDI machines, (notice this is the commercial BSD version), due to inability of BSDI to see drives properly in some instances... Everything except the first drive, was mounted on /drives/$drivename/ This

Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Manon Metten
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Hi, I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when installing etch). I tried this: e2label /dev/hdb4 xyz e2label /dev/hdb4

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Hi, I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is it today, national People from other distros day? That would be a big negative ten four good buddy: $ dpkg -S e2label e2fsprogs: /usr/share/man/man8/e2label.8.gz e2fsprogs:

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when installing etch).

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is it today, national People from other distros day? That would be a big negative ten four good buddy: $

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 18:17:59 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is it today, national People from other distros

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:17 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is it today, national People from other distros day? That would be a big negative ten four good

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 18:17:59 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:17 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is it today, national People from other

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Manon Metten
On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. It's labeled /xyz now

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, *Douglas Allan Tutty* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I want to change the name and

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Manon Metten
On 4/5/07, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, *Douglas Allan Tutty* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Hi Bob, Thanks for your detailed explanation. I appreciate it very much. Hope I understand it better now: /xyz is a logical mount point that I can use to access my physical partition /dev/hdb4 - correct? Whatever name for a mount

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Manon Metten
On 4/5/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: The odd thing however is, when I type 'ls /' /xyz as well as /store show up, although /xyz is not mounted of course. How do I get rid of this /xyz statement (and where does it come from)?

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:41:03PM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I want to change the name and access

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:58:12PM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: The odd thing however is, when I type 'ls /' /xyz as well as /store show up, although /xyz is not mounted of course. How do

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man hier and the debian policy manual). The FHS is a policy document about what directories can be where and what they're used for. Almost the whole