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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:38:15
Message-Id: 4C77E9D6.60102@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers by Bill Longman
1 Bill Longman wrote:
2 > On 08/27/2010 09:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >> <Snipped>
11 >>
12 >>
13 >>> Yet another way to use labels:
14 >>>
15 >>> When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.:
16 >>>
17 >>> mke2fs -j -L SpeedySSD /dev/sde1
18 >>>
19 >>> then in your /etc/fstab use the label like this:
20 >>>
21 >>> LABEL=SpeedySSD /usr/home ext3 relatime 0 2
22 >>>
23 >> I don't think Dale (The OT) would like to have to reformat his partitions just
24 >> to get this to work :)
25 >>
26 > :-)
27 >
28 > I thought, too, (of course *after* I had pressed "SEND") that I should
29 > have switched those two sentences around. I do not mean to imply that
30 > you have to zap all your data to use labels. That would really drive
31 > people away from Gentoo, wouldn't it? (I'll be right there, honey, I
32 > just have to reformat my boot partition!)
33 >
34 > Please read these as two completely separate and independent examples,
35 > one for how to set them up in the first place and second, how to apply them.
36 >
37 >
38
39 I knew what you meant tho. That was the best part of reading that.
40 They should put this in the install guide.
41
42 Dale
43
44 :-) :-)