fedora-list Digest, Vol 34, Issue 129

[Toad]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:25 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:49 +0000, Toad wrote:
> > Replacing root=LABEL=/1 with root=/dev/hda in the third title entry
> > results in kernel panic which may be consistent with all the empty
> > directories.  I did RTFM and google LABEL but still not sure exactly
> > how it works.
> 
> Can't help with the other issues, but the "root" part is for the
> system
> "/" partition.  So whichever partition on hda it is, that's the one
> you
> put.  i.e. it'd be "root=/dev/hda2" not just "root=/dev/hda".
> 
> Label is just a name put on the partitions, it could be anything (you
> get to choose the name, almost freeform).  You can find out what's the
> label for /dev/hda2 by this command:
> 
>   e2label /dev/hda2
> 
> You can change the label by writing the new one on the end.
> 
> e.g. e2label /dev/hda2 systemroot
> 
> It's handy if you move drives about, you can mount them by labels
> without having to work out if they're hda1 or hdb2.  But a bastard if
> you have installs with the same labels on different drives.  I've
> taken
> to naming my drives with a texta (e.g. fred), then relabelling the
> partitions accordingly.
> 
> e.g. fredboot, fredsysroot, or fred1, fred2 

Thanks for the input re "LABEL".  Sounds like a plan.  Now if I can just
figure out why anaconda is installing empty folders. :-(

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