Re: d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels

[Eric Lavarde <Eric.Lavarde@bawue.de>]

Hi,

I don't know if my opinion counts but I _did_ notice that d-i creates 
labels, and at the same time broke my parallel Red-Hat FC2 installation, 
which all of soudain tried to use my debian root partition (LABEL=/) as 
its own root partition, without luck of course, and with a lot of really 
strange error messages.
It took me quite a while to figure out the problem, so here is the 
message: labels do only properly work at install time, if no other 
system is using them as well.
(and, no, I didn't think about posting a bug, but I can do. Against 
which package actually?)

Thanks, Eric

Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:20:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > it worked.  I really regard this problem as serious because it
> > > > probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system
> > > > after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just
> > > > reinsert "root=/dev/hda?" into grub's menu.lst. Any idea how to
> > > > solve this problem?
> > >
> > > ...by using partition labels in fstab?
> >
> > Sorry, I do not know anything about partition labels but if this is
> > the solution it should be done in the installer and if this works in
> > Grub menu.lst this should be done here as well.
>
>
> I gave some of the relevant people in the d-i team an education on the
> benefits of filesystem labels, to to the point where partman will create
> filesystems with a label, however I didn't manage to convince them to mount
> by the label in /etc/fstab
>
> regards
>
> Andrew

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