Stroller wrote:
On 8/11/2010, at 5:56pm, Dale wrote:
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I have not been able to get grub to see the LABELS yet but I'm going to post
fstab so that you have a example that is known to work and not from a guide:
/dev/disk/by-label/boot /boot ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/disk/by-label/root / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-label/swap none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-label/home /home reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/disk/by-label/data /data reiserfs defaults 0 1
I'm not paying enough attention to know whether your above fastab works or not,
but /dev/disk/by-label/* seems a relatively ugly way of doing things. I'm
pretty sure it's not intended that you use that format, and I have no idea
whether it's supposed to work that way.
All the guides say to use the word "LABEL". That's not a variable or anything -
it's the literal word you're supposed to use.
I have no idea why a guide should be considered unreliable, but the below is
not fabricated - it is from an actual working system:
$ grep -ve ^# /etc/fstab
LABEL=boot /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
LABEL=/ / ext4 noatime 0 1
LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,users 0 0
LABEL=space /mnt/space ext4 noatime 0 3
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
$
To me this seems cleaner than your format, and it's certainly fewer characters!
Stroller.
Well, it does work since it booted as recent as last night when I
updated my kernel. I found that somewhere and just copied that to
mine. It may be the long way but it does work. I may edit it and try
it your way but since mine works and I don't move things to much, not
sure it really matters.
I sometimes like to get things from a working system, such as what you
posted that you use, because sometimes what is in a guide somewhere may
not apply to what I am using or even my OS. May be some subtle
difference that causes me grief. Since you use Gentoo, yours is a good
example to go by. Should have had that a few months ago when I was
changing mine over. ;-) It would have saved me some typing as you
pointed out. lol
Wouldn't happen to have LABELS in your grub.conf file would you?
Dale
:-) :-)
