From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Sunday 13 July 2008 05:17, someone who identifies as *Nikos Chantziaras*   
   > wrote in /alt.os.linux.gentoo:/   
   >   
   >> I have a Gentoo installation that I'm trying to make bootable in 2   
   >> different machines. [...]   
   >>   
   >> [...] booting it in the 2nd machine results in swapon   
   >> complaining that /dev/sda2 does not exist (which is correct).  It fails   
   >> to pick /dev/sdc2 (LABEL=GentooSwap).   
   >>   
   >> [...] 'fsck -C -T -a /'complains that /dev/sdc1 cannot be repaired   
   >> [...]   
   >   
   > Have you tried using labels as well for */boot/grub/menu.lst?*  By the way,   
   > by the same token you can also use UUIDs instead of labels, but that makes   
   > for much longer strings, of course.   
      
   Now that you mentioned UUIDs, I noticed that /dev/disk/ contains these   
   directories: by-id/  by-label/  by-path/  by-uuid/   
      
   After I changed fstab to:   
      
   /dev/disk/by-label/GentooRoot /    ext3 noatime 0 1   
   /dev/disk/by-label/GentooSwap none swap sw      0 0   
      
   it works perfectly.  I suppose it should have worked with the LABEL=   
   syntax in the first place too.  by-id and by-uuid also works though I   
   prefer labels (out of habit).   
      
   Anyway, it works now so I'm happy.  I wonder though if I should open a   
   bug for it.  The behavior with LABEL= looks dangerous to me.  swapon   
   previously complained that /dev/sda2 does not exist.  What if /dev/sda2   
   *did* exist?  It would happily wipe it out by using it as swap :P   
      
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