Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 10:56, Paul Howarth wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
Something strange is happening in my attempts to write to fstab. I have
added, for instance,
LABEL=/OldData
/dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2
then umounted the manual mount of /mnt/data and run
[root@david ~]# mount -a
mount: mount point does not exist
However, the mount occurs and /mnt/data is readable in konqueror.
Clearly there is some sort of problem, but what?
There appears to be two lines:
LABEL=/OldData
This line does not have enough fields and is the one mount complains about.
/dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2
This line has the right number of fields and hence works.
Hi, Paul. I copied from the existing entries, not realising that the display
had split the lines. However, I not get
[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 12 in /etc/fstab is bad
These are my entries:
LABEL=/OldData /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3
users 1 2
LABEL=/home_july05 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/home_july05 ext3
users 1 2
LABEL=/mnt/home_dec05 /dev/hdb11 /mnt/home_dec05 ext3
users 1 2
LABEL=OldVideo /dev/hdb8 /mnt/video ext3
users 1 2
In each case KWrite is highlighting the final parameter. I know that these
parameters concern checking, but I don't much much else, so again I copied
from the existing /home line.
Advice, please?
The LABEL= syntax is an alternative to specifying the device/partition.
So you'd use
LABEL=/OldData
*instead of*
/dev/hdb9
rather than in addition to it. The filesystem can be labelled using
e2label. This syntax can help when actual device names are prone to
changing (more often the case with SCSI drives than IDE ones).
You're probably better off just dispensing with the LABEL= field
altogether in this case.
Paul.
