fstab LABELs

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:45 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     In a way it doesn't really matter since they're still mounted 
> correctly (besides I've already changed them and removed the '1', as 
> well as fix grub.conf too), but I'm just wondering WHY it does that.

I've seen this too, and always assumed it was due to a label
named "/boot" already existing, and it isn't bright enough to notice
"Oh, that's the one I'm gonna destroy and reformat" (but I don't
actually know anything, just a guess).

Wit till you try to install suse on the same machine and tell it
to mount your old partitions - suse now believes that non-alphanumeric
characters are illegal in disk labels, so it conveniently relabels
your disks for you (which is quite a surprise when you try to
reboot fedora again - at least one of the suse test versions
did this to me, don't know if they improved it in the release
since I stopped telling the installer to mount the partitions
and just edited the fstab by hand after the install :-).