Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:25:58 +0200 | Subject | Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers | From | Marc Lehmann <> |
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On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 02:22:07PM +0100, DAVID BALAZIC wrote: > > > > This does not at all mean they can't be used! > > OK , then how would you make this : > "mke2fs on partition YAHOO1" > if the label YAHOO1 isn't defined anywhere ?
I was mainly speaking of e2fsck. You normally don't do mke2fs automatically. But even then, yes, volume labels could sitll be used, although their use would be far less common.
> > If the partition is so corrupt that the label name can't be found > > user interaction is probably necessary anyway. If the label is intact > > everything is fine. > > But if it isn't , then it's not fine. If the FS is corrupted , then > any part of it can be bad , including the label , don't you think so ?
Why this should be a reason not to use them escapes me. At the moment its practically impossible to use labels in your fstab just because e2fsck doesn't support them.
Do _you_ want to tell me that 99% of the time, e2fsck does something else than saying "filesystem clean"?
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