Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Bill Longman wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 09:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>    
>> On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote:
>>      
>>> On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote:
>>>>          
>> <Snipped>
>>
>>      
>>> Yet another way to use labels:
>>>
>>> When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.:
>>>
>>>    mke2fs -j -L SpeedySSD /dev/sde1
>>>
>>> then in your /etc/fstab use the label like this:
>>>
>>>    LABEL=SpeedySSD /usr/home  ext3  relatime  0 2
>>>        
>> I don't think Dale (The OT) would like to have to reformat his partitions just
>> to get this to work :)
>>      
> :-)
>
> I thought, too, (of course *after* I had pressed "SEND") that I should
> have switched those two sentences around. I do not mean to imply that
> you have to zap all your data to use labels. That would really drive
> people away from Gentoo, wouldn't it? (I'll be right there, honey, I
> just have to reformat my boot partition!)
>
> Please read these as two completely separate and independent examples,
> one for how to set them up in the first place and second, how to apply them.
>
>    

I knew what you meant tho.  That was the best part of reading that.  
They should put this in the install guide.

Dale

:-)  :-)