Removing Labels from fstab

Aldo Foot lunixer at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 16:30:35 UTC 2007


On 9/28/07, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>
> Aldo Foot wrote:
> > On 9/28/07, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Fedora 8rc2 like Fedora 6 and 7 uses labels in fstab.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any thoughts on what happens if I just replace the labels
> >> with /dev/sdaXX references?
> >>
> >> --
> >>               R. Geoffrey Newbury
> >
> >
> > I'm also in the habit of replacing the labels with /dev/sdaXX and the
> system
> > behaves normally. But I notice that when the system boots it references
> the
> > original labels.
>
> What references the original labels?
>
> > Where in the system are these labels "stored" for the system to find
> them?
>
> I suspect it is grub.  Have you looked at your grub.conf file?
>
> > ~Aldo.
>
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome at rcn.com
> cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
> Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
>
> Yes. I have. Normally you see the root label in grub.conf. I'm ok with
that.
But I had a /usr/local and changed its label to the /dev/sdaXX in fstab, but
at boot time the system would display /usr/local1... so I don't know where
that was coming from.

~Aldo.
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