Re: Possible forensic issue with grub and RH8.0

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

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

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