hello, i've got a new, blank hard drive, and i was going to pop in a DOS boot floppy and use partiton magic to pre format the hard drive for linux, instead of letting the install program do it automatically. ((i'm bored so i thought i would experiment)) but partition magic will want a label name, and i had a moment of doubt, since i was unsure if the label name made a difference. i was going to create a swap partition / /boot /home and i was not sure if i needed to label the partitions as /home or just home /boot or just boot or does it matter to linux during the installation as i assign mount points to the partitions. i understand the naming scheme for hard disk partitions, how to mount them and all that stuff... but... does the label i give a partition with partition magic matter, and if it does, do i need the / in front of it? thanks michael hallsted -- Michael Lawrence Hallsted home: mailto:tbhccs@cal.net http://www.hallsted.com/index.html http://www.softcom.net/users/mikey719/index.html work: mailto:webmaster@jfmco.com http://www.jfmco.com/index.html
On Thursday 21 November 2002 23.27, Michael L. Hallsted wrote:
and i was not sure if i needed to label the partitions as
/home or just home
/boot or just boot
You could label it "DonaldDuck" if you liked. It's just an identifier, it doesn't determine what you use it for. Anders
On Thursday 21 November 2002 14:27, Michael L. Hallsted wrote:
hello,
i've got a new, blank hard drive, and i was going to pop in a DOS boot floppy and use partiton magic to pre format the hard drive for linux, instead of letting the install program do it automatically. ((i'm bored so i thought i would experiment))
but partition magic will want a label name, and i had a moment of doubt, since i was unsure if the label name made a difference.
While Anders's answer was a bit tongue-in-cheek (name it "donaldduck") it doesn't address your actual question:
does the label i give a partition with partition magic matter, and if it does, do i need the / in front of it?
I'm tempted to say "no, it doesn't matter", and take a further step to say that the initial "/" probably won't matter anyway -- as you've already alluded to, you do know how partitions are labeled so far as Linux is concerned (entries within /etc/fstab), so the question remains, what of "partition magic's" name for the partition? This is where I'm getting tripped up too becuase I can't see why PM would be asking for a name (volume label) for a non-FAT partition -- are you sure PM does indeed ask for a "name" for linux partitions? (or are you planning on running linux on a FAT filesystem? I hope not, but I have to ask, if for no other reason than to point out the incongruity... :) ) Tom
On Friday 22 November 2002 01.43, Tom Emerson wrote:
While Anders's answer was a bit tongue-in-cheek (name it "donaldduck") it
doesn't address your actual question:
does the label i give a partition with partition magic matter, and if it does, do i need the / in front of it?
On Friday 22 November 2002 00.06, Anders Johansson wrote:
It's just an identifier, it doesn't determine what you use it for.
I think the above addresses the question
I'm tempted to say "no, it doesn't matter", and take a further step to say that the initial "/" probably won't matter anyway -- as you've already alluded to, you do know how partitions are labeled so far as Linux is concerned (entries within /etc/fstab),
Partition labels have nothing to do with the file system on the partition. As an example, when Red Hat's installer (or was it gentoo, I forget) partitions your harddrive, it assigns the label ROOT to the root partition. You can then use that label in lilo or grub instead of /dev/hdXX. But as I said, it's just an identifier. It could be almost anything. Anders
thanks for all of the responses... hmmmm, i really must stop thinking in terms of ms windows, i have used partition magic many times, but always with windows, and i knew i always needed a label name. but i hadn't done anything yet with partition magic and linux, thinking i should ask the question first. but, seeing the various answers.... i have 3 hard drives, 15GB,20GB,30GB,cdrom and win98. i freed up 8GB on C drive and 8GB on E drive. i was going to put swap on hdc 512MB /home on hdc2 primary 7.5GB /boot on hda2 primary 100MB / on hda3 primary 7.9GB and dual boot win98 and linux i fired up partition magic v7 to see about the label name. if i want to make a swap partition, i can not input a label. if i make an ext2 partition, then i can type in a label name. the area that assigns a drive letter is greyed out in either case since that is only a windows thing. anyway, since it most likely does not matter, i am going to use label names that will remind me of the purpose of the partition. and since partition magic allows me a label name, i might as well make the partitions with a purposeful label. [ ie. /, boot, home ] thanks again, michael hallsted -- Michael Lawrence Hallsted home: mailto:tbhccs@cal.net http://www.hallsted.com/index.html http://www.softcom.net/users/mikey719/index.html work: mailto:webmaster@jfmco.com http://www.jfmco.com/index.html
On Friday 22 November 2002 1:19 am, Michael L. Hallsted wrote:
thanks for all of the responses...
hmmmm, i really must stop thinking in terms of ms windows, i have used partition magic many times, but always with windows, and i knew i always needed a label name.
but i hadn't done anything yet with partition magic and linux, thinking i should ask the question first. but, seeing the various answers....
i have 3 hard drives, 15GB,20GB,30GB,cdrom and win98. i freed up 8GB on C drive and 8GB on E drive. i was going to put swap on hdc 512MB /home on hdc2 primary 7.5GB
You must have a lot of files.... to need 7.5GB
/boot on hda2 primary 100MB
15MB for /boot would be plenty....
/ on hda3 primary 7.9GB
and dual boot win98 and linux
i fired up partition magic v7 to see about the label name. if i want to make a swap partition, i can not input a label. if i make an ext2 partition, then i can type in a label name. the area that assigns a drive letter is greyed out in either case since that is only a windows thing.
Linux doesn't care about label names.
anyway, since it most likely does not matter, i am going to use label names that will remind me of the purpose of the partition. and since partition magic allows me a label name, i might as well make the partitions with a purposeful label. [ ie. /, boot, home ]
thanks again, michael hallsted
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On Friday 22 November 2002 08.06, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Linux doesn't care about label names.
That depends on what you mean with "care about". It doesn't need them, certainly, but it can use them. If you label your root partition FOO you can then have LABEL=FOO / ext2 defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstab. It can, in some cases, make things easier.
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