[ale] Duplicate disk labels...

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

You need to change the partition labels. 
/sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/<partition i.e.hda1> will output the list of
stuff. 

/sbin/tune2fs -L NewLabel /dev/hda1 will rename it.

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:58, Dan Man wrote:
> I've got a hard drive that's on it's last legs and I'm trying to recover
> some data. I've reinstalled Linux on a new drive and all is well. When I
> attach the old drive as a slave, Linux complains about duplicate
> partition labels and won't boot. The new drive is partitioned like the
> old one, save for a larger home partition...
> 
> How can I boot with these two drives in the machine?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ............................................
> Dan Mount
> 
> 
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