+++ VaibhaV Sharma [2006-03-10 11:28:58]:
>
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
>
> >On 06/03/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Edit /etc/fstab to have a line like so:
> >>/dev/hda4 /var ext3 defaults 0 1
> >
> >Usually not required on modern Linux distributions that use the
> >filesystem labelling feature of ext2/ext3. Instead, do something like:
> >
> >e2label /dev/hda4 /var
> >e2label /dev/hdaX oldvar
> >
> >(hdaX being your old /var)
> >
> >and just make sure that your fstab uses labels rather than raw
> >device names.
>
> I haven't had to deal with any such situation so am curious. What
> would happen if you had two hard drives with two installations of
> lets say RHL that uses filesystem labels and you plug both the HDDs
> on the same machine?
>
> How would the booting copy of RHL deal with duplicate /var or / or
> any of those labels on the two hard drives?
It just takes the first one it encounters.. and totally messed up everything.
It's braindead to replace a unique unidentifier with a non-unique one.
On boxes that use that scheme if you "get to be root".. just interchange the
labels and watch the fun on the next reboot. :-)
Kingsly
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