Bug 78082

Summary:	RFE: Add unique text to partition labels
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8.0	CC:	jfeeney, mitr
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Description Jay Fenlason 2002-11-18 20:44:52 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I move a Red Hat Linux root disk from one machine to be a secondary disk on another Red Hat Linux machine, the boot process often mounts the wrong disk as /.  Chaos ensues.  If instead of using "LABEL=/" the installer used "LABEL=/_XYZZY" (with XYZZY chosen randomly at install time), I wouldn't have to hand-edit my /etc/fstab before moving disks.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Move a root disk (sd0) onto a machine with it's root on hd0.
2.Reboot.
3. (if you're lucky) observe the kernel panic when it mounts the wrong root.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Rugolsky, Jr. 2002-11-19 19:19:38 UTC

You can change the label yourself with "tune2fs -L $label $device",
either on each system, or prior to moving the device elsewhere.
The latter is of course not helpful if you are moving the because
the machine to which it is attached it broken; in that case, it
should be done by prior arrangement, or you should hot-add the
device after booting.

You could also mount everything by UUID.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-11-19 19:56:33 UTC

The goal isn't to allow people to move disks between machines, it's to make it
so that adding more SCSI adaptors doesn't completely hose you.  Additionally,
using random labels or UUID makes it even less easy to use for the user.

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-20 17:38:25 UTC

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