disks renamed in 8.04

[Craig Hagerman]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:46 PM, R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  > I'm not sure, but (assuming you want the device to be mounted at boot,
>  > rather than hotplugging) I'd suggest a safe option would be to give
>  > the device a label, e.g.:
>  >
>  > tune2fs -L BACKUP /dev/sdd1
>  > then in your /etc/fstab have:
>  > LABEL=BACKUP .....
>  > as the mount specification

I think you are talking about the same problem I just wrote about in
Hardy where mounted discs are displayed by label rather than by mount
point (as it was previously). I don't have labels on my mounted discs
so they ALL show up as "500.1 GB Media".

I was under the impression that if you changed the label of a disc it
wiped all the data. Is this not so? I don't want to try that tune2fs
thing if it is going to wipe out 500 GB of data.