I ended up using ext3 on the other drive, and then using tune2fs -L <label> on both of them.
That's seven drives on the Firewire bus now - 56 to go, I guess. Absolute bandwidth is pretty lame (only 25mB/s), but I suspect it's a controller issue, as multiple enclosures seem to top out at that speed. Good enough for my purposes, anyways. -DMZ On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 11:45 -0400, Rob Sherwood wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:25:32PM -0400, David Zakar wrote: > > Quick, and hopefully easy, question: > > > > I have a Firewire hard drive, which, miraculously enough, actually seems > > to work properly in Linux (Fedora Core 6). The file system is fat32 > > (fdisk code "b"), which is OK, since this is meant as a temporary > > storage drive, not as something high performance or reliable. > > > > I want to mount this disk up in the same place (/mnt/scratch-disk) every > > time I boot, automatically. Since the location of the disk on the bus is > > going to be changing soon (more firewire disks are coming!), I want to > > just slap a device label on the partition and then use that as the > > reference in fstab to mount it up. > > > > But, for the life of me, I have no idea how to change the device label. > > Does anyone know how to do this? You can assume the partition in > > question is /dev/sde1. :) > > Didn't see an answer to this: > > e2label(8) and mount -L $LABEL I believe are the answers to your questions. > > > > Bonus question: I'd like to do the same thing with my main storage, > > which is a Firewire RAID (/dev/md0). The file system on that is ext3. > > How should I approach that? > > The same thing as above should work afaik :-) > > Good luck, > > - Rob > .
