Rudi Ahlers wrote: > John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: <snip /> > 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.) -- Charles Polisher