Re: problems formatting partition via ks

["Nathan Scott" <nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

On Jul 17, 10:03am, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Subject: Re: problems formatting partition via ks
> On 16 Jul 2001 16:11:20 -0700, Will Francis wrote:
> 
> > when making /usr/local/net, it fails with these errors:
> 
> Nathan's right, it's a limitation on the length of allowed labels in
> XFS...  I put the labeling code into the XFS installer to make it behave
> more like the ext2 install, but didn't anticipate this.  Whoops.  I'll
> put out an update floppy to fix this (by turning labels back off, I
> suppose).
> 

Is that necessary?  Would you not get a similar error doing
the same thing on ext2 (although with the upper limit at 16
rather than 12 chars)?

I didn't see anything bad here, so far anyway...

cheers.

-- 
Nathan