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 1KKiRq-0004Ja-I7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABE10E03B7; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D202E03B7 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F9665DD7 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.531 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.531 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.068, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fLxGHsgG6yTn for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0598666904 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KKiRX-00010b-F5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:35:55 +0000 Received: from athedsl-4368166.home.otenet.gr ([79.130.23.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:35:55 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-4368166.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:35:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:35:44 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> <4883911E.8000207@bellsouth.net> <200807202112.14029.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-4368166.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080715) In-Reply-To: <200807202112.14029.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: fc48e673-869d-4e18-aa0a-c4da044d8799 X-Archives-Hash: 84867d78e7b4906f770bafb9baa02019 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> 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. > > Yes, labels . . . been thinking of doing this for the last two years! I guess > I will have to use reiserfstune for my reiserfs partitions. What about xfs - > will xfsprogs do it? The xfs_admin is used to change the label of XFS partitions: http://linux.die.net/man/8/xfs_admin > Thanks for the tip. The thing with the conventional device numbering system > is that you know which one is first, which second, etc. With Labels I'll > have to add something to it to remind myself that this is the first > partition, etc. Can I have blank spaces in the Label name? I don't think spaces are allowed. But you can use underscores or capitalization. Anyway, you don't need to add something to remind you of the partition's position; /etc/mtab will use regular device names, so you can see what's going on with 'cat /etc/mtab' or simply 'mount' without parameters. On my system, even though I use labels, I get this with 'mount': /dev/sdc1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda1 on /windows/C type fuseblk (rw,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)