From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Bug#354229 Disk Labels in Handbook
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:20:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iiv7fu$mt9$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110209200516.GA21349@satcidananda>
On 02/09/2011 12:05 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:
> I'm a little confused about use of the term "disk labels" in
> this discussion. Isn't a disk label a fs level ID (I create
> those when I make my fs)? Using UUID in fstab for quite awhile
> here (due to multiple external drives), but those aren't disk
> labels... are they?
Correct, they are two different (but equivalent) ways of naming
a filesystem (partition) for use in fstab.
mkfs generates a UUID automatically when the fs is created, but
it does *not* generate a "label" unless you give it one using the
-L flag, or create one later using e2fslabel or some other utility.
The syntax in fstab is either UUID=<foo> or LABEL=<bar>, but the
idea is exactly the same. The whole point is to divorce the fs
from the /dev/xxxx it happens to reside on at boot time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-09 23:22 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-09 20:05 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Bug#354229 Disk Labels in Handbook Elaine C. Sharpe
2011-02-09 23:20 ` walt [this message]
2011-02-10 15:39 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Bug#354229 Disk & FS " james
2011-02-09 13:51 [gentoo-user] Disk " James
2011-02-09 14:16 ` Dale
2011-02-09 16:16 ` Jarry
2011-02-09 18:41 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Bug#354229 " James
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