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 1LWR5w-0005Yc-Kz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:02:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAF33E034B; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.243]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2C6E034B for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1898395rvf.46 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:02:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tLL9DZaJaFQrLY7sD+N52l+HrciFkZ28JD3bgI6L/B0=; b=wnLfQvotUmi7TB8zzXeeLux6ipiqZRonkYoFf4+NQa7PKTI2oYa20vrtXy5+1ZWGi1 a2ZKKiaKyVr245gyY6PJK5aE0qRoHTrCkE6c04KyzxzpTybk55H+jD39JE3T6pE2+QT0 qMOgwOvKlAP0/TpX4d2W3w6bgKFHHokllGIoU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Mr09i7moQbRwvPrSgBCoA851k9/5asozTx0T1OsCMgrKeOuYnSH1/S/WRSHB6CQBgp /O3XRBR8uB1QGjzOebUrlBQhykNiV269RYrDWfxY+ld2bI6K97315nU8gH9ZbLfhae2m gl2y8Qi0X2Zht2OSitG4322hTeL8BI7DSA+4g= Received: by 10.142.43.7 with SMTP id q7mr2721948wfq.155.1234166538241; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.117.102? (dialup-4.230.117.102.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.102]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm7537187wfi.12.2009.02.09.00.02.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:02:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498FE304.2000409@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:02:12 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf References: <498FDE61.9070603@gmail.com> <5D0CCAC3-54EF-4FE3-8D06-777DEEF0C2A4@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5D0CCAC3-54EF-4FE3-8D06-777DEEF0C2A4@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0c6297f6-96c3-4665-b3cf-7d27111981b4 X-Archives-Hash: 01893a245e68fafa324277831b6f5f70 Stroller wrote: > > On 9 Feb 2009, at 07:42, Dale wrote: >> Stroller wrote: >>> ... >>> stroller@hex ~ $ sudo mount -v -L boot >>> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) >>> stroller@hex ~ $ >> ... >> You may have done this but just in case, you did use the tools to set >> the label on the drive right? tune2fs does it for ext2 and ext3. I'm >> not sure about ext4. > > Good question! I thought for a moment that the above demonstrated that > I had done so, but of course it is necessary to boot from a LiveCD > instead: > > root@sysresccd /root % mount -v -L root /mnt/gentoo > mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sda6 > I will try type ext4 > /dev/sda6 on /mnt/gentoo type ext4 (rw) > root@sysresccd /root % > > Stroller. > > > Since ext4 is new and I have no experience with it yet, you may want to take this lightly. I think cfdisk, or fdisk, would show if the label was set or not. It to my knowledge can't change the label but it does show it if it is set. It should do that even if booted from the drive as well, just don't change anything. ;-) Dale :-) :-)