On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 04:34, Tom Brown wrote: > 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? The problem with /dev/sd? devices is that the are named in the order detected at boot time so they may change if you add or remove disks or controllers. The problem with labels is that if you add a disk to a machine that happens to have a duplicate label the system will be confused and may not boot. I prefer to use the partition names because the behavior is more predictable when you move disks around between different machines. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com