On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:39:06AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:13:01PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Someone suggested a while ago to use LABEL= in d-i. Can someone who > > uses this feature explain exactly how it works? If I put LABEL=/home > > in a /etc/fstab, how does Linux know which partition is associated > > with this label? > > Basically, at filesystem creation time (or afterwards) labels are added to > the filesystems. AFAIK, this is an ext2/3 and xfs feature, I'm not aware of > other filesystems that have it, someone may correct me.
JFS does, according to mkfs.jfs(8); although mount(8) doesn't mention it so maybe it wouldn't work for this purpose, I'm not sure. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
