On 02 Jul 2008, Bob Cox wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:51:20 +0100, Anthony Campbell (ac@acampbell.org.uk) wrote:
I don't understand label in this context. Where is it set?
This was explained by Florian Kulzer earlier in this thread. (It was
such a good explanation I kept it for future reference!)
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:00 +0200, Florian Kulzer
(florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es) wrote:
You can use UUIDs or labels to refer to the partitions. This is
robust if a newer kernel changes the device nodes (e.g. from /dev/hda to
/dev/sda). You can use the "blkid" utility to find out the UUIDs of your
partitions, or you can set your own labels with e2label (and mkswap -L
for the swap partition).
To give you an example, I labeled my root partition "root" and this is
the corresponding fstab entry:
LABEL=root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
If you want to use UUIDs then the syntax is "UUID=....".
--
Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it
would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change in the
actual partition referred to. The label would still be referring to
the wrong partition. Still, now that I know this can happen I will not
be caught by it in the future.
Anthony