Labeling Partitions

Justin Bennett Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com
Fri Dec 6 09:26:45 EST 2002


yeah this is my extent of my understanding of it as well, It's a cool
thing, I just was wondering how I could assign a label to a new partition
for a new drive post install. Tony told me you can do it during
partitioning, too late for that, but maybe there is a utility for assiging
a label to an existing partition, was just wondering....

Justin

 Cyber Source said:
> Hello Justin,
>   Bob Meyer and I briefly talked about this one night. Labels are pretty
> cool in that the "label", say /boot does not have to be tied to a
> particular piece of hardware, be it /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda5. How you can
> determine which label points to which device, you may be able to "ls -l
> "label", I'm not sure, have not look into this further. I do know that
> the current man pages on fstab delve into the subject. Hope I was a bit
> of a help.
>> When you install a newer distribution (redhat 8.0), the fstab doesn't
>> have partition info in it it looks like:
>> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults 1 1
>> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
>>    1 2 none                    /dev/pts                devpts
>> gid=5,mode=620  0 0 none                    /proc
>> proc
>>    defaults        0 0 none                    /dev/shm
>> tmpfs   defaults        0 0 LABEL=/tmp              /tmp
>>    ext3    defaults        1 2 LABEL=/usr              /usr
>>       ext3    defaults        1 2 LABEL=/var              /var
>>          ext3    defaults        1 2
>>
>>
>> I was wondering where the correlation between LABEL=/ and /dev/sda1
>> is?
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> Conrad Kreyling said:
>>> I'm kind of confused by the question itself. You might be looking for
>>> a line in /etc/fstab like:
>>>
>>> /dev/md0      /export     < fs type here >  auto  0 0
>>>
>>> to use a simple `mount /export` command. Help any?
>>>
>>> Con
>>>
>>> * Justin Bennett (Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com) wrote:
>>>> quick one, how do you label a partition, when you install the new
>>>> Distributions your fstab is all LABEL=/tmp, ect. I added a raid
>>>> array and had to add it to fstab as /dev/md0. how would i go about
>>>> creating a label for /dev/md0 as say /export?
>>>>
>>>> Justin
>>>>
>>>>
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