[NCLUG] disk drive partition designation

[William Greger]

Ben,

  Thanks for the suggestion.  I haven't used the  e2label  command, but I'll give it a try later on.

Bill Greger

> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:36:01 -0600
> From: mrgenixus at gmail.com
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] disk drive partition designation
> 
> technically, you can smoth all this out by locating the drives/partitions by
> label as was once done in redhat 7.2.... ages ago.  At the very least, it
> WILL work in fstab -- I use it for my memory sticks, mostly, but it DOES
> work work for hdd's.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Brian Wood <bwood at beww.org> wrote:
> 
> > William Greger wrote:
> > > Brian,
> > >
> > >   Thanks for your response.  I always like to understand the reason
> > behind what's going on.
> > >
> > > Bill Greger
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, the change has caused some problems, especially for people
> > updating from earlier versions of Ubuntu.
> >
> > In particular it seems grub was not getting updated properly to reflect
> > the new drive name(s). Also /etc/fstab was not getting properly updated.
> >
> > This is an example of how the kernel developers are, in my opinion, not
> > thinking of the problems they cause for users.
> >
> > I liked the old days when we had separate kernel trees for development
> > and mainstream use. If you wanted to be on the bleeding edge you used an
> > odd series kernel, if you wanted stability you stuck with an even series
> > one.
> >
> > Linus says he likes the present system, where the developers whack away
> > on the same tree as the stable users. Linus says this makes kernel
> > development "smoother". I'm sure this is true, but I'm also sure it
> > would be even smoother if all of us pesky users switched to Windows.
> >
> > Using the same basic designators for SCSI, IDE, USB and F/W is confusing
> > IMHO, leading to an increased possibility of wiping out a hard drive
> > when you thought you were just erasing a thumb drive.
> >
> > Oh well, probably we should be using drive labels in any case. The way
> > drives are labeled in Linux has always been a problem, with drive
> > designations changing any time you add or remove a drive. Those of us
> > with Solaris backgrounds really go crazy over that :-)
> >
> > beww
> >
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