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Native ZFS packaging for Debian and Ubuntu
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why use /boot/grub as partition label for boot? #110

Closed bksunday closed 9 years ago

bksunday commented 10 years ago

I try to be safe and avoid spaces and other characters.. but mke2fs -m 0 -L /boot/grub -j /dev/disk/by-id/some-disk-id specifies the full path as a label and not as a path.parameter, thus introducing slashes in names..

Is it needed by zfs? root@ubuntu:~# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 2 02:31 \x2fboot\x2fgrub -> ../../sda1

dajhorn commented 10 years ago

Is it needed by zfs?

No.

IIRC, this is in the ZoL documentation because the Ubuntu installer conventionally sets the mount point as the filesystem label. Some systems use the LABEL= keyword instead of the UUID= keyword in the /etc/fstab file.