disklabel

[Joshua Andrews]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>søn, 12.12.2004 kl. 17.55 skrev Manu Abraham:
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>>On Sun December 12 2004 4:45 pm, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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>>>søn, 12.12.2004 kl. 13.16 skrev Manu Abraham:
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>	I had a machine running RH9 and a 120GB SATA HDD. The HDD was ailing and
>>>>occassionally giving out sector not found {Drive ready,Seek failure}
>>>>errors. So i thought it was time to move in to FC3 and a new 160GB SATA
>>>>HDD.
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>>>>Bootup of FC3 gave me a kernel crash, and an error complaining about
>>>>suggesting acpi=off, but even with acpi=off, still gave me the same
>>>>warning and a crash..
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>>>>I then later on figured that the SATA Enhanced mode operation would be a
>>>>problem and switched it to compatibility mode. The motherboard is an ASUS
>>>>P4C800, Intel 875 chipset.. Lo it worked....
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>>>>That went fine through.... No problems even though initially i thought
>>>>not to edit /etc/fstab by hand because it was generated by fstab-sync ? I
>>>>went on to edit it by hand...
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>>>>Everything went smoothly...
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>>>>Now i figured that i required some files more were there on the old HDD,
>>>>than compared to the backup i had...
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>>>>I plugged in the OLD SATA HDD has Primary Slave, and the NEW SATA HDD as
>>>>Primary master.
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>>>>The initscripts failed stating about duplicate LABEL=/, LABEL=/boot,
>>>>LABEL=/work...
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>>>>and a hung system...
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>>>>I know that if i modify the disklabels to actual device names my problems
>>>>would be solved...
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>>>>But, what i would like to know is whether a graceful way of doing it
>>>>exists, without much hassle... I know that this is not much of an issue,
>>>>but still thought it would be better if i posted the problem...
>>>>
>>>>Manu
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>>>Comment out the lines, add new lines for the same stuff. Then plug it
>>>in, boot, mount the volumes, copy the stuff, shutdown, unplug, and
>>>uncomment the lines again.
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>>That's what i temporarily did to solve the problem...
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>>Manu
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>Sometimes, the simplest solution is the best solution :)
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I don't really understand the need for disk labels in fstab at all, in 
fact it has always caused me more problems while not doing anything 
helpful that I am aware of.

I would like to remove labels from some partitions. I have relabeled 
partitions but I'm not quite sure how to safely remove labels.

-Joshua