[Linux-users] Mini rant: sda vs hda

[Collins Richey]

On 10/11/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

>
> On the CentOS systems I've been working with recently, they refer
> to disks by LABEL, which has to be set somewhere as in the
> /etc/fstab file below.  The /boot/grub/menu.lst file has similar
> things for the root file system.  I had assumed that they were
> adding something to the disk's partitioning information with
> these label names.
>

Yes, RH anaconda adds a label to each partition. I'm not sure whether
they invoke 'e2label' or 'tunwe2fs' to set the labels.

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Collins Richey
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