[CentOS] Changing mount point - 4.3

[John Allen]

On Mon 08 May 2006 10:34, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> A box was installed with the majority of the free space in /home but i
> actually want this to be available to /opt. My fstab had /home looking
> like this
>
> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>
> I umounted /home and changed the fstab to look like this
>
> /dev/sda5             /opt                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>
> and then mounted /opt. All works fine. My question is, is this the
> 'correct' way to do something like this or should i stick to 'LABEL' ? I
> wonder as i'm not sure where the label tag gets set and when i see the
> box boot now it still references /home when in reality it is /opt on sda5.
>
> Is this a really bad thing to do?
>

You should change the LABEL on /dev/sda5, then update fstab
LABEL=/opt             /opt                   ext3    defaults        1 2

> thanks
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