Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2035 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 14 September 2007 07:41, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Friday 2007-09-14 at 00:06 -0400, Peter Sjoberg wrote:
> > > It must be a mess. And how
> > > about naming volumes, they all have to be unique no?
> > > So what does /etc
> > > or /var or whatever become when you install. Or do you just make
> > > disk1p5 and disk1p6 large enough to hold everything? And what about
> > > ubuntuor fedora or whatever. They all have /home, /var, etc. etc.
> >
> > If you think about it, it's not that much different then when using
> > plain partitions. When you have one disk you are forced to call every
> > partition sda1, sda2 and so on up to sda15. If you now install 4
> > different os versions, how do you keep track of what partition that
> > is /var for each os?
>
> You can label plain partitions, and use the label for mounting instead of
> the device name. In fstab:
>
> LABEL=320_home1        /home     xfs        noatime,nodiratime             
>         1 2 LABEL=320_home2        /home2    reiserfs  
> noatime,nodiratime,user,acl,user_xattr  1 2
>
> --
> Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.

OK Peter & Carlos.

We shall see.

Bob S
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