On Saturday 03 October 2009 00:40:08 Linda Walsh wrote:
However, if you label your partitions (use XFS, or another file format that supports labels), then you can mount by label and when the devices are renumbered, it won't matter.
Are there any file systems that don't support volume labels of some sort? All the ones I use (XFS, ext2/3/4, reiserfs, swap, FAT32) all support volume labels[0]. You can change the label for ext2/3/4 file systems while mounted. XFS and reiserfs require the file system be umounted first. FAT32 and swap need the label be given at the file system creation time, at least under Linux. Under Windows, FAT32 and NTFS labels can be changed without reformatting. One thing you need to make sure of, if you're going to use labels, is that you don't have two file systems with the same volume label as this can confuse and/or break things. [0] JFS also supports labels, but I don't actually use that. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2m7 RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org