[ltp] Reserving disk drive identities?

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:55:51 +0100


Tino Keitel wrote:

> For the hard disks, you could use e2labels if you use ext2 or ext3.
> Using tune2fs -L <name> /dev/sda1 (for example) you can give sda1 a
> name. This name you can use in fstab like this:
> 
> LABEL=<name>       /mnt           ext3     defaults  1    1

Thanks. Unfortunately, the CF microdrive is FAT16 (so it will work in a 
pda), and the firewire device is ReiserFS. Is there something similar I 
can do? Is this actually The Right Way to do it?

Regards

Richard