disklabel

Uday Kumar Reddy udayreddy at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 17:50:49 UTC 2004


> >>>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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sometimes, the simplest solution is the best solution :)
> >
> >
> >
> 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.

In fact, having disk labels is immensely helpful when adding/deleting
partitions changes the partition minor numbers. With disk labels being
used in fstab and grub.conf, you don't have to manually edit all the
device names that have got incremented/decremented.

-- Uday

> 
> 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
> 
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