Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (509 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

My Factory on one old PIII system lives on partition 19 on 1st/only PATA. It was installed from FTP at Alpha 5. Update today using YaST was uneventful, but I did notice things on reboot that don't
seem good and/or right.

1-My root partition shows up in fstab and mount output twice:
/dev/disk/by-label/hdx19factory on /
LABEL=hdx19factory on /

Is / being mounted twice a problem?

2-There's little rhyme or reason to the order of entries in fstab. HD partitions are (by traditional device names):
hda19 (root by label)
hda3 (DOS by-id)
hda8 (windoz by devicename)
hda9 (FAT by devicename)
hda5 (/boot by-id)
hda14 (/knoppix by-id)
hda7 (SUSE 10.1 by-id)
sda5 (Cooker /boot by-id)
sda8 (Cooker /home by-id)
sda7 (Cooker / by-id)
hda15 (/home by-id)
hda16 (/pub by-id)
hda17 (/srv by-id)
hda18 (/usr/local by-id)
hda20 (/usr/src by-id)
hda6 swap by-id
sda5 (duplicate, except by devicename)
hda19 (duplicate, by-id)
sda9 (/disks/sda/extra by-id)

2-Most entries in fstab, plus root= in fstab, are of type by-id, even though valid and much shorter and more humanly manageable labels exist on all native partitions.

3-In addition to entries for no longer present kernels, the entries for Knoppix on hda14 and SUSE 10.1 on hda5 were also removed from /boot/grub/menu.lst.
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Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
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