Installer doesn't change disk labels as appropriate

[Michael Lynch]

When installing Ubuntu from the installer CD, the installer doesn't change
ext2/3 labels as appropriate.

Example:
I had a partion that I previously had used as my /home partition.
When I installed Ubuntu I wanted to use this partion for other things instead of
/home. I mounted it as /business.
I first noticed this discrepency when an automated disc check took place upon
bootup and said that it was checking "/home" (which it wasn't).
While this may not be a huge problem, it can cause some confusion among new
users to Linux.

How to fix: Have the Installer/Partioner utilize e2label.

Notes: This may happen with similiar file systems as well, though I don't use
anything outside of FAT32 and EXT3 so I really have no idea.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The partitioner does set labels if you ask it to using the custom partitioning
mode, but not automatically. We have to be a little careful about doing this:
duplicate labels will cause boot problems for some operating systems. As a
result it's fiddly to do automatically, but perhaps we'll be able to do it some day.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

My previous comment was completely wrong; I only just noticed that we do in fact pick up the default label from the mountpoint, but then we don't update that if you change the mountpoint.

I've had a request from the desktop team to stop setting default labels from mountpoints, which I agree with as the problems outweigh the benefits. That should resolve this bug.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

partman-basicfilesystems (46ubuntu5) dapper; urgency=low

  * Don't use the mountpoint as a default label (closes: Malone #21655).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 3 May 2006 12:29:34 +0100

partman-ext3 (39ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Don't use the mountpoint as a default label (closes: Malone #21655).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 3 May 2006 12:37:38 +0100

partman-jfs (15ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Don't use the mountpoint as a default label (closes: Malone #21655).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 3 May 2006 12:40:00 +0100

partman-reiserfs (28ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Don't use the mountpoint as a default label (closes: Malone #21655).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 3 May 2006 12:41:59 +0100

partman-xfs (27ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low

  * Don't use the mountpoint as a default label (closes: Malone #21655).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 3 May 2006 12:43:48 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

After a brief discussion on #debian-boot and being pointed to Debian bugs #310754, #315554, and #249041, I've applied these changes upstream too.