appropiate fstab entries -- How to use labels
 

Hi,

I'm about to do a major 'reshuffle' of the partitions on my Compaq (Proliant DL360 G2) server with a scsi raid (cciss). I'm mostly happy with the procedure from reading the parted manuals, but I'm not sure how to update my fstab afterwards, I'd better use some examples to explain:

At the moment partition entries in my fstab are identified by labels, for example:

LABEL=/home /home ext3 usrquota,grpquota,defaults 1 2

However, in parted I have no identifiers for the corresponding partitions. For example (I only included the same partition here):

Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
5 11865.484 16718.437 logical ext3

However if I do 'df -h' disks are identified 'normally' - in /dev/ E.g:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 4.7G 2.9G 1.6G 64% /home

I'd like to just use labels again, as it'll make life a bit easier. My worry is, how will I know which partitions have which labels? The desired result I want involves deleting some of the labelled partitions and I'm not sure what exactly will happen if Linux tries to load my swap as a root partition, or such like, but I'm pretty sure will give me a headache!

Thanks,

~James~

Use the e2label(8) command to display the labels on the interesting partitions. For example,

[user@JamesBox user]$ e2label /dev/cciss/c0d0p5
/home
[user@JamesBox user]$

(That may not be its output; I've never used this program)

Here's the man page:

http://node1.yo-linux.com/cgi-bin/ma...ommand=e2label(8)

Wooo groovy little command, had a play with it and now I'm happy.

Cheers,

James