On Monday 19 January 2004 16:39, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Actually I do use one of these (lower case) in fstab: /dev/root, because > > if I list that in fstab as /dev/hde5 I get two entries for / in > > KwikDisk and KDiskFree (one for /dev/hde5 and one for /dev/root). > > Sure, this will work on most (I think) Linux file systems since they > support partition labels. However, it won't work for things like FAT > partitions which don't.
IIRC the /dev/root symlink is created based on the kernel option root=/devhdXY. (or it could also be based on /etc/fstab, I'm not sure) Partition labels as such don't have anything to do with it. At least not here, since I've never labeled any partitions. I also previously used it in /etc/fstab for the same reason, but now (in a new installation due to a hard drive failure). I just have /dev/hda3 and it doesn't show up twice in KwikDisk or KDiskFree. Could've been fixed in an update or something. -- Jani-Matti Hätinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
