[ale] Duplicate disk labels...

[James P. Kinney III]

It's more for a convenience of calling the /dev/hda1 partition BOOT so
you won't forget :)

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 20:36, Dan Man wrote:
> Thanks...
> 
> I actually just edited fstab using the actual device names instead of
> labels and I'm running now...
> 
> What is the purpose of the labels anyway?
> 
> ............................................
> Dan Mount
> dmount at dtconnect.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com] 
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:04 PM
> To: Dan Man
> Cc: Atlanta Linux "User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] Duplicate disk labels...
> 
> You need to change the partition labels. 
> /sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/<partition i.e.hda1> will output the list of
> stuff. 
> 
> /sbin/tune2fs -L NewLabel /dev/hda1 will rename it.
> 
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:58, Dan Man wrote:
> > I've got a hard drive that's on it's last legs and I'm trying to
> recover
> > some data. I've reinstalled Linux on a new drive and all is well. When
> I
> > attach the old drive as a slave, Linux complains about duplicate
> > partition labels and won't boot. The new drive is partitioned like the
> > old one, save for a larger home partition...
> > 
> > How can I boot with these two drives in the machine?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > ............................................
> > Dan Mount
> > 
> > 
> > 
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