[ale] simple question

[David A. De Graaf]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:45:47PM -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> HAH! that's the answer to what I asked a couple days ago, exactly what I was 
> trying to do.  How can I set the label for a drive, if I want to label my 
> external drive "maxtor" or somesuch? 

Read 'man tune2fs'.
That tells how set the LABEL and much more.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:37 pm, Jim Patterson wrote:
> > Sean,
> >
> > Since that is an ext3 (ext2 or xfs will also work), you should be able to
> > just use the UUID or LABEL based mounting to work around the changing
> > device id.
> >
> > Try something like this in your fstab:
> >
> > LABEL=backups    /mnt/backup     ext3   noauto,owner,ro   0 0
> >

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