[mythtv-users] Changing partition label

[stan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nick
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:15 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Changing partition label
> 
> On 04/10/06, stan <stanlist at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > To verify, are you saying it's safe to just change the 
> /etc/fstab entry
> >
> > From
> >         LABEL=/video    /video  ext3    defaults 1 2
> > To
> >         LABEL=/video    /data           ext3    defaults 1 2
> >
> 
> Unmount /dev/hdc1 before changing anything. Then you can create the
> new mount point, update your /etc/fstab file, and update the partition
> label. Then mount the drive again with
> 
> # mount /data
> 
> Then create your recordings, videos, and music directories under /data
> and change the MythTV pointers. All data under /data will then be
> stored on /dev/hda1.
> 
> > But, that still begs the question of how to change the 
> /video partition name
> > as well.  Is this a risky procedure at this point.  Is the 
> partition name
> > /video already known in several other places?
> 
> Use the e2label command as you mentioned in your original post to
> change the label. Changing the partition name when the partition is
> unmounted should not affect anything. Problems are really only to be
> expected if you change the partition label without updating /etc/fstab
> to reflect the change (and fstab is referencing partitions by label
> and not be device name) - as mount will not be able to find the
> partition.
> 
> Nick
> 

Thanks Nick.  This basically worked.

If anyone tries this, though, remember to first mkdir for the new mount
point (e.g. mkdir /data1 in my case).

Also, I found it easier to leave the old /video as a local directory under /
until I reconfigured mythtvsetup to point to /data1/recordings.

--stan