Rudi Ahlers wrote:
John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
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But as with so many posts on the mailing lists these days everyone seem to wonder off from the original topic and not even bother to help with OP with the original question. Surely he has a good reason why his system not updated yet.
Amen.
To the OP, from man mke2fs:
-L new-volume-label Set the volume label for the filesystem to new-volume-label. The maximum length of the volume label is 16 bytes.
Method 1: When creating a new filesystem with mke2fs use the "-L mylabel" option, or use e2label to change the label on a previously- created filesystem. In /etc/fstab use a corresponding LABEL=mylabel filesystem spec (first field).
Method 2: Use blkid to get the uuid for your partitions. Then use UUID=00000000-1111-2222-3333-444455556666 in /etc/fstab in the first field. From my point of view the advantage is that if during some service manouver a disk is shuffled into the wrong slot, you can puzzle out how to put humpty-dumpty back together. (Having previously made an off-host copy of /etc/fstab.)