On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@(protected):
>
> On Monday 21 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):
> > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:58 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > > The other possible way would be to give your devices unique names,
> > > > either via udev or by using LVM. Advantage over UUIDs: much easier to
> > > > read.
> > >
> > > Or you could use filesystem labels.
> >
> > I've used filesystem labels for a long time and generally it works
> > really well. Only problem I've had is my Dad's machine has a Maxtor
> > 1-touch 1394 drive. It seems that often it doesn't get recognized by
> > the 1394 subsystem fast enough to satisfy whatever requirements the
> > Gentoo scripts have for the label being readable so it doesn't
> > reliably get recognized every time.
>
> I have thought about using labels, but never really ventured into it (I think
> I tried it once on a server). Can I do it retrospectively on ext2, reiserfs
> and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the partition?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

Yep. I use e2label. Works fine with ext2 and ext3 partitions. One
command to read the label, another to write it. Easy.

- Mark
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