Label Crap!
Tim
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Thu Jul 26 03:36:16 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 05:14 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> The original label in fstab was 123456 for the root directory
> and it was the swap directorys that had the worst long labels. This is
> important because the label on the swap partition is wrong!
I've seen dual boot systems change things slightly, so each partition is
unique. e.g. Your first system had /boot/, /home/, etc., and the next
installation was /boot1/, /home1/, etc. But 123456 seems a bit extreme.
Have you done multiple installs/upgrades on top of each other, or have a
multiboot system?
> So those long nonsense labels for the swap partitions are what
> caused my swap to not work. This is a bug for anaconda.
Hmm, doesn't matter what they actually are, so long as they're used
consistently, and according to whatever rules apply to the names. But
it's certainly more user-friendly to have a label you've got some chance
at being able to easily type in.
> I opt for a manual partition setup. I dislike the LWN idea as
> being too complex and uncontroled. It must be this that messes up
> anaconda.
I, too, dislike the LVM idea. How did you manually partition, though?
I used fdisk to carve up the drives, then provided labels when I did a
mkfs.ext3 on the main partitions, provided labels with the mkswap
command, and use e2label on anything that need's tweaking, later on.
(Divide them up and call them names, mildly amusing...)
I did it from the install disc, I CTRL+ALT+Fsomething to get to a
console before the install routine got to the partitioning the disc
section, then went back to the routine after my custom drive prepping.
Using the install routine's manual partitioning to *pick* the partitions
it'll install to, but not reformatting them.
I did it in that manner because the install routine doesn't give me an
option to type what *I* wanted to use as the volume labels. That's
important for multiboot or multidrive systems.
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