From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKgBA-0007Lq-QE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:10:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F1D4E0650; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost04.isp.att.net (fmailhost04.isp.att.net [207.115.11.54]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FE5E0660 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.71.137] (host-216-78-71-137.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.71.137]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc04) with ESMTP id <20080720211049H0400975mhe>; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:10:49 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.71.137] Message-ID: <4883A9D7.6000003@bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:10:47 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080719 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? References: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> <20080719211213.GA1073@muc.de> <200807201552.30732.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4883911E.8000207@bellsouth.net> <488398F7.6070501@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4e5aa799-9fdc-4904-8fc8-af3373b1faff X-Archives-Hash: 683b13dcd914376c09d8ff0f9ac334da Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Dale wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> Question, if I were to label mine and then boot from a Gentoo or >>>> any other bootable CD, would those labels still be there? >>> >>> The labels are part of the file system; they're always there. For >>> example, when booting the 2007.0 LiveDVD (which uses the legacy >>> drivers, meaning /dev/hd* instead of /dev/sd*) the labels are there >>> and I can mount /dev/disk/by-label/GentooRoot just fine. >> >> Keeeewl. Now to see what I can screw up. o_O > > I should mention here the old Indian* saying: "If it ain't broke, > don't fix it." > > > *OK, it's not Indian, but you get the idea. > > > True but I have trouble remembering which partition is home and which is portage, until I mount them anyway. It's obvious then. I guess according to another reply that I will have to use something else for resierfs. I guess it can't hurt to much. Worst thing is to have to boot and edit fstab back to the old way. :/ Dale :-) :-)