partition labels

[Duncan Lithgow]

> > I've messed up by not giving things
> > different labels. Does that sound right?
> 
> It's conceivable. Another possibility is that the disk or filesystem has
> serious errors and the kernel is quickly marking it read-only so as
> avoid further corruption.

If that's the case how would I know? Remember it was running perfectly
until i installed ubuntu - which still runs fine.
> 
>  > but on to FC4...
> >
> > When I install FC4 shall I make sure each partition has a unique
> > label? Like / could be Label=fc4-base or something?
> 
> If you're doing an upgrade, anaconda will probably leave the filesystem
> labels as they are. If you delete the existing partitions and create new
> ones, anaconda will not (I believe) create partition labels that are
> duplicates of existing partition labels. I don't think you get to
> specify what the partition labels are.

Well I can in qtparted - so shall I? Then I could make label=/fc and
/home-fc etc. I would make it easier for me, but does it effect
anything else?

Duncan