[ale] simple question

[Jay Loden]

HAH! that's the answer to what I asked a couple days ago, exactly what I was 
trying to do.  How can I set the label for a drive, if I want to label my 
external drive "maxtor" or somesuch? 

-Jay

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:37 pm, Jim Patterson wrote:
> Sean,
>
> Since that is an ext3 (ext2 or xfs will also work), you should be able to
> just use the UUID or LABEL based mounting to work around the changing
> device id.
>
> Try something like this in your fstab:
>
> LABEL=backups    /mnt/backup     ext3   noauto,owner,ro   0 0
>
> Jim P.