On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:46:12PM -0800, Hovis Chasteen wrote: > I changed the kernel line to read “kernel > /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/hda5” (hda5 is my root > partition). I rebooted the system and everything is > now as expected. My point here is obvious. If I had > installed a suspect hard drive on this stock install I > could be working on the original evidence and loose > data integrity. Not a good thing. > > I am not sure if this is new to 8.0 or grub but I did > not see this in RH7.3. If anyone has a better solution > or can explain LABEL to me, I’m all ears. > LABEL is like a DOS volume label for ext2/ext3 filesystems, it allows you to put names on partitions instead of directly addressing them like /dev/hda5 ... it is nice from a sysadmin perspective because you can add and remove drives and partitions without having to update your fstab every time. Recent versions of the ext2/ext3 tools support labels, including mount, fsck, etc. See man 8 tune2fs for more details. I guess grub supports it now too. -- Alan ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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