Re: Bug#248902: installation-report debian-installer beta4, arch i386
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:39:06AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:13:01PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > Someone suggested a while ago to use LABEL= in d-i. Can someone who
> > uses this feature explain exactly how it works? If I put LABEL=/home
> > in a /etc/fstab, how does Linux know which partition is associated
> > with this label?
>
> Basically, at filesystem creation time (or afterwards) labels are added to
> the filesystems. AFAIK, this is an ext2/3 and xfs feature, I'm not aware of
> other filesystems that have it, someone may correct me.
JFS does, according to mkfs.jfs(8); although mount(8) doesn't mention it
so maybe it wouldn't work for this purpose, I'm not sure.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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