How to rename an existing/working partition?

[Anthony Messina]

Jim Christiansen wrote:
> I have sort of a regular method upgrading my Redhat/FC servers by using
> two drives and multiple partitions.  My usual  habit for upgrading
> systems is to recable my old and working master to slave and the old
> slave to master and at install not to reformate the old master-  I just
> relabel it as /old-slash.
> 
> After everything settles down I clear off the /old-slash in stages and
> then write an rsync script to take my new homes across at midnight
> everyday...
> 
> I'm getting tired of seeing /old-slash show up in the root of my file
> system.
> 
> I'm using FC5 now and want to rename /old-slash to something less boring
> :-)  - maybe /backup or maybe /rsync-drive...
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this??  I've searched around but not found
> anything clear yet.
> 
> Thanks,  Jim
> 
> 
if your /etc/fstab uses a line similar to this:
LABEL=/old-slash	/old-slash	~other settings~

then you know that the filesystem label is "/old-slash" and you can use
"tune2fs -L /backup" to change it.

you will then need to create your new "/backup" mountpoint andedit
/etc/fstab to look like this:
LABEL=/backup		/backup		~other settings~

and as always:
man tune2fs first so you know exactly what you'll be doing.

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