<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2008 10:22 AM, Balaji Narayanan <<a href="mailto:lists@balajin.net">lists@balajin.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> 3. make a label for the ext3 partition<br>> tried using gparted but one it does not have an option and two it seems<br>> like it would reformat the disk if i tried anything<br><br></div>
e2label will be your friend.<br></blockquote><div><br>thanks<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>also, i am not sure how hard disks are mounted. assuming that this is<br>
done by hotplug, try to see if you can fiddle around /etc/hotplug to see<br>if you can add specific options for your devices.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>the specific options are in etc/fstab for those devices that have a more permanent mounting like onboard hard disk and stuff<br>
<br>while the hot mount devices are in /etc/mtab which get refreshed every time we reboot.<br><br><br>ram