Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

[Shachar Or <dawnlight@lavabit.com>]

On Sunday 17 August 2008 20:35, abel wrote:
> 	 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:32:04 +0300
>
> 		 Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I prefer to use labels, because they are readable (compared to
> > UUID) ;)
> >
> > $ grep '^# kopt' /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > # kopt=root=LABEL=sid ro vga=0x368
> >
> > You have to run 'update-grub' after changing this
> >
> > $ grep sid /etc/fstab
> > LABEL=sid	/               ext3
> > errors=remount-ro,noatime,commit=600 0       1
> >
> > For ext2/3 you set the labels with e2label.
>
> question 1 -->
>
> current menu.list lines are:
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=792
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64
>
> given :
> hoss64:~/misc/dev-vs-label# e2label /dev/hda1
> lenny
> hoss64:~/misc/dev-vs-label#
>
> new menu.list lines should be:
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 root=LABEL=lenny ro vga=792
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64
>
> Are the new menu.lst lines correct?

I'm sure there's documentation available about this.
>
>
> question 2 -->
> update-grub should be run after the update to /etc/fstab.
> correct?
>
> Thanks.

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