Geom_label and multiple devices

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Thu Mar 29 23:47:46 UTC 2007


Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> 2. Stop the system (panic?), because it's just administrator fault
> (misconfiguration).
> 
> I'd prefer 2, but it's too cruel. Administrators make mistakes and we
> have some garbage to clean still (eg. 'c' partition). 

... and people using multipath would be angry :)

> I like this idea, but it can only be used for glabel's native labels.
> You can't use the same method for filesystem volume names, and those are
> more often used than glabel's native labels.

Well, there's always the "dirty" way, by embedding "hidden" strings like 
"#0" in the labels.



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