A FC6 suggestion.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 12:25 -0400, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
> On 5/5/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > In the latest Linux Journal in the etc/rant column the author makes an
> > interesting suggestion that I think the Fedora people should consider.
> > He points out the problem of associating entries in the fstab file with
> > a LABEL-/. If one runs more than one Linux version more than one
> > partition  might have this label.
> >
> > I would like to make the suggestion that the Default Label be more
> > descriptive. The author suggests something like FC%32ROOT.
> 
> I question if this necessary. You can have entries in fstab with or
> without labels. I've had 3 single Fedora installations on single drive
> across multiple partitions and never have run into a problem in the
> installer or usage nor have I had to manually edit fstab for this. I
> think in Anaconda the labels will start shifting to /1, /2, /home1
> etc. Since at runtime you don't deal with partition labels, just their
> mount points, it really is not a serious concern.
> 
> Just my opinion.
> 
> -Mauriat
I agre and your and I and everyone else resorts to changing the labels,
but with a little planning that would not have to be done.
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