Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:33:15 +0100 (MET) | From | DAVID BALAZIC <> | Subject | Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers |
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From: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
>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.
I don't say you shouldn't use volume labels , but that partition labels are more suitable for those tasks.
>Do _you_ want to tell me that 99% of the time, e2fsck does something else >than saying "filesystem clean"?
When accessing a partition by volume label , the app must read all avaliable partition and look for the correct label. This might be undesirable.
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