Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Question re: UUID

[Mick]

On Monday 21 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:58 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> >  > The other possible way would be to give your devices unique names,
> >  > either via udev or by using LVM. Advantage over UUIDs: much easier to
> >  > read.
> >
> >  Or you could use filesystem labels.
>
> I've used filesystem labels for a long time and generally it works
> really well. Only problem I've had is my Dad's machine has a Maxtor
> 1-touch 1394 drive. It seems that often it doesn't get recognized by
> the 1394 subsystem fast enough to satisfy whatever requirements the
> Gentoo scripts have for the label being readable so it doesn't
> reliably get recognized every time.

I have thought about using labels, but never really ventured into it (I think 
I tried it once on a server).  Can I do it retrospectively on ext2, reiserfs 
and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the partition?
-- 
Regards,
Mick