FS#6106 - Installer and filesystem labels
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Opened by Victor (Victor) - Saturday, 30 December 2006, 11:56 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 18 July 2008, 15:41 GMT
Opened by Victor (Victor) - Saturday, 30 December 2006, 11:56 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 18 July 2008, 15:41 GMT
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I think it will be nice if we include and option in the
installer to add a label for each filesystem. Then we could
use persistent block device naming for solving hdX->sdX
problems
(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Persistent_block_device_naming).
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Closed by Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Friday, 18 July 2008, 15:41 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: Installer uses UUIDs. Anyone is free to replace this with labels at install time
Friday, 18 July 2008, 15:41 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: Installer uses UUIDs. Anyone is free to replace this with labels at install time
I've had that setup for some time and never had problems. I also switched from ide_piix to ata_piix driver when I upgraded to 2.6.20, and I didn't have to touch any settings.
BTW I also use suspend2, so at one time vol_id didn't recognize the label of the swap partition because suspend2 flags it. But brain0 patched vol_id, so that's no longer a problem.
mtools can be used very easily for changing labels of FAT filesystems. But you must first set disk mapping in mtools configuration file (I didn't find option to make it on command line... but maybe there is some hidden one?). So we can do for example this (if you want to change label of /dev/sda7 to "new_label"):
echo 'drive c: file="/dev/sda7"' > /tmp/mtools.conf
MTOOLSRC=/tmp/mtools.conf mlabel c:new_label