What I do when I am done with YaST is edit fstab so that the order is in
an order I like. It will change lines, not delete them and add at the end
afterwards.

Strangely enough, openSUSE already has /dev/disk/by-label,
which shows *all* partitions that have been given labels.

Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009 20:11, VWWall a écrit :

Strangely enough, openSUSE already has /dev/disk/by-label,
which shows *all* partitions that have been given labels.

Actually, only file system labels are in /dev/disk/by-label,
not the partition labels assigned upon creation with
parted. Partitions used as swap or raid member do
not show.

Those assigned partition numbers are shown at the end of entries in

Marcel Bruinsma wrote:

Actually, only file system labels are in /dev/disk/by-label,
not the partition labels assigned upon creation with
parted.

I assume it defines, (and shows), labels actually written to the boot
record of the partition. These will show with blkid, as will the UUID.

Shmuel Metz wrote:

I don't recall the details, but I've had cases where I edited a
configuration file manually and Yast later overwrote my changes. I've
found it to be safer to just use Yast across the board, and only edit
those files that Yast doesn't handle.

I have heard about this by people over time, yet I never have noticed it
in the years since at least SuSE 6.3 where I have been using YaST and
edited fstab by hand.

Sure it changes my settings but only those changes that I select to be
changed.

I am not saying it does not happen. I am saying that apparently either I
am very lucky, I do not notice the changes or YaST is afraid of me and
does not dare to change things that I do not want to change.

Marcel Bruinsma wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009 20:11, VWWall a écrit :

Strangely enough, openSUSE already has /dev/disk/by-label,
which shows *all* partitions that have been given labels.

Actually, only file system labels are in /dev/disk/by-label,
not the partition labels assigned upon creation with
parted. Partitions used as swap or raid member do
not show.

Those assigned partition numbers are shown at the end
of entries in /dev/disk/by-id and also in /dev/disk/by-path.

I used /sbin/e2label to label partition sda11 as "PCLOS_root".
It shows in /dev/disk/by-label as such.

On Thursday 29 Oct 2009 02:42, while playing with a tin of spray
paint, Marcel Bruinsma painted this mural:

Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009 20:11, VWWall a écrit :

Strangely enough, openSUSE already has /dev/disk/by-label,
which shows *all* partitions that have been given labels.

Actually, only file system labels are in /dev/disk/by-label,
not the partition labels assigned upon creation with
parted. Partitions used as swap

Yes they do:

On Thursday 29 Oct 2009 05:51, while playing with a tin of spray
paint, VWWall painted this mural:

Marcel Bruinsma wrote:

Actually, only file system labels are in /dev/disk/by-label,
not the partition labels assigned upon creation with
parted.

Oh, I missed that part. Partitions don't have labels

although they do have types, e.g. 82 is for swap, 83 for
a Linux file system, 8E for one that's able to be a part of
a logical volume.

Am Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009 08:45, David Bolt a écrit :

Yes they do:

You're right, the SWAPSPACE2 style swap areas, can be given
a label upon creation. That, however, is not the same thing as
the partition label, assigned with the mkpart parted command.

On Thursday 29 Oct 2009 08:49, while playing with a tin of spray
paint, Marcel Bruinsma painted this mural:

You're right, the SWAPSPACE2 style swap areas, can be given
a label upon creation. That, however, is not the same thing as
the partition label, assigned with the mkpart parted command.

Which version of parted are you using? The one supplied with
openSUSE 11.1, parted-1.8.8, doesn't support partition labels.
There the mkpart command is as follows:

mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end

part-type is the partition type, primary, extended or logical
fs-type is the file system type, and is optional
start and end are the start and end of the partition

Am Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009 10:35, David Bolt a écrit :

On Thursday 29 Oct 2009 08:49, while playing with a tin of spray
paint, Marcel Bruinsma painted this mural:

You're right, the SWAPSPACE2 style swap areas, can be given
a label upon creation. That, however, is not the same thing as
the partition label, assigned with the mkpart parted command.

Which version of parted are you using? The one supplied with
openSUSE 11.1, parted-1.8.8, doesn't support partition labels.
There the mkpart command is as follows:

mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end

part-type is the partition type, primary, extended or logical
fs-type is the file system type, and is optional
start and end are the start and end of the partition

Version 1.8.9 (with a few local minor-bug-fixes).

Older
versions (1.8.7 and 1.8. do support partition labels
too, even if the manual doesn't mention them. The
semantics of mkpart (and many other commands)
depend on the disk label type (see mklabel). The gpt
disk label partition table is linear; 'primary', 'logical'
and 'extended' are meaningless with a linear partition
table. Instead, the 'part-type' string is used as the
label of the partiton. The label can be modified with
the name command.

I am not saying it does not happen. I am saying that apparently either I
am very lucky, I do not notice the changes or YaST is afraid of me and
does not dare to change things that I do not want to change.

Maybe it's afraid of you. Have you ever wielded a debugger in anger
anywhere near YaST?

I have heard about this by people over time, yet I never have noticed it
in the years since at least SuSE 6.3 where I have been using YaST and
edited fstab by hand.

Sure it changes my settings but only those changes that I select to be
changed.

or YaST is afraid of me

Of course, partitions have a partition label, which is stored in the
partition table, which is part of the disk label.

In <slrnhege5q.ejo.houghi at (no spam) penne.houghi>, on 10/28/2009
at 01:27 PM, houghi <houghi at (no spam) houghi.org.invalid> said:

What I do when I am done with YaST is edit fstab so that the order is in
an order I like. It will change lines, not delete them and add at the end
afterwards.

I don't recall the details, but I've had cases where I edited a
configuration file manually and Yast later overwrote my changes. I've
found it to be safer to just use Yast across the board, and only edit
those files that Yast doesn't handle.