naming partitions

[willieray]

Hey team. Just clean installed fc4 on my mythtv box (upgrade from fc3). I backed all my saved shows and games up on the partition i had created /video . welp, when i partitioned my drive with disk druid when installing fc4, i forgot to name the /video partition. is there a way to name it after the fact? will my data still be there? i did not format that partition. just / and /boot

[willieray]

can i just mod my fstab to see it? prolly. i don't have time now though. any easier or sure fire ways let me know! thanx

[peters]

Ultimately you'll need to check your '/etc/fstab' file and add it there. The low-level way to check or set a LABEL for a partition is using dumpe2fs and tune2fs. Dumpe2fs will let you see the current LABEL and tune2fs can set the LABEL.. You'll still need to make sure you have a '/etc/fstab' entry for the filesystem so that you can mount it. I'm sure there are some associated GUI tools for all this, but I would not be familiar with them.

Hth

[tomcat]

Just adding the partition to fstab should not create any problems. And in case it does, you can always remove the entry from fstab later.

[willieray]

please tell me i'm not hosed. the partition is xfs on an lvm. can't mount it. get an already mounted mesg. help!