Re: disklabel

[Joshua Andrews <josh wavefood com>]

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:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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..
> > > >
> > > > 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....
> > > >
> > > > 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...
> > > >
> > > > Everything went smoothly...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Now i figured that i required some files more were there on the old HDD,
> > > > than compared to the backup i had...
> > > >
> > > > I plugged in the OLD SATA HDD has Primary Slave, and the NEW SATA HDD as
> > > > Primary master.
> > > >
> > > > The initscripts failed stating about duplicate LABEL=/, LABEL=/boot,
> > > > LABEL=/work...
> > > >
> > > > and a hung system...
> > > >
> > > > I know that if i modify the disklabels to actual device names my problems
> > > > would be solved...
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > > >        
> > > 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.
> > >      
> > That's what i temporarily did to solve the problem...
> >
> > 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