Quick question about relabelling partitions...

Zombie13 · 10-31-2007, 04:45 PM

Very simple. I just want to relabel my partitions as / instead of /1, /usr instead of /usr1 etc. I'm guessing this is an easy thing to do, but being as this is my main PC, I'd like to have as little downtime as possible - so thought I'd ask before playing...

Code:

LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/home1            /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/usr1             /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var1             /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=SWAP              swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda1               /mnt/winxp              ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000  0 0
/dev/hda7               /mnt/data               vfat    rw,defaults,umask=0000  0 0
/dev/hdd2               /mnt/media              vfat    rw,defaults,umask=0000  0 0

Cheers!

acid_kewpie · 10-31-2007, 05:04 PM

just use the e2label program to change it to whatever you want. note that there is no need to use labels at all, they just make things a little prettier. so "e2label /dev/hda5 /usr" and then update fstab to reflect that.

Zombie13 · 11-01-2007, 08:01 AM

Brilliant, many thanks!