[ale] Duplicate disk labels...

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 04 November 2002 08:41 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> It's more for a convenience of calling the /dev/hda1 partition BOOT
> so you won't forget :)

I thought it was so you could add new drives to your computer, or move 
drives between computers without worrying about the drive name (e.g. 
hda, or sdb).  This isn't so important with IDE drives, but a scsi 
drive can easily get renames it you add a drive.  If you are mounting 
be label names then fstab doesn't need to change.

--Michael

> 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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