Two upgrades, two different confirmation messages?

Why does linode-2 show the version of Ubuntu and says "Disk Profile" but linode-1 does NOT.

I believe this is the "Label" in the configuration that's booted. Different label, different message.

-- sw

Yep… that is it! I should have thought of that.

As I understand it, the "label" in Settings is just what appears on the Linodes screen.

But is the "label" in Configuration? It allows you to change it, but what might get screwed up if I do change it???

Are these "labels" documented anywhere?

Thanks again. I'm not sure what many of us who are somewhat new to Linux administration would do without you here!!!!

The label is just that…a label. It's probably related to the API somehow…since you can manage configurations with the Linode API. Somehow it's easier for me to remember "My Linode" than Linode ID 123456789.

See: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/api/

I don't think there's any downside to changing the label unless you have API scripts that depend on it (in which case, IMHO, that would be a pretty poorly-written script…since a contextual label probably doesn't have to be unique).

-- sw

It sounds like the notifications could be about different configurations, though it's hard to tell. Since we recently updated our API documentation, I wanted to add specific links to help with configurations specifically:

• To list configuration profiles for a specific Linode
• See more details about a specific profile