How to edit partition labels?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Aug 5 23:44:24 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Michael Schwendt <fedora at wir-sind-cool.org> said:
> On 05 Aug 2004 16:33:50 -0400, C. Linus Hicks wrote:
> > This is not true. An initrd is only _required_ if you have not compiled
> > into the kernel a module necessary for boot.
> 
> Wrong. You can only mount partitions via their ext2/ext3 volume labels if
> the initrd contains a mount command which understands the labels, e.g.
> nash.

Note that this only affects the root filesystem.  All other filesystems
are mounted using /sbin/mount on the root filesystem.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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