Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm saying that if I mount the drive manually, it works. If I reboot
the machine, the drive fails to mount. I see a few error messages
during boot-up and it says mount failed. When the machine comes back
up to the desktop, I can then mount manually again, without problem.
My fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext2 defaults
1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs
defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/home/cj/archive /home/cj/archive ext3 defaults 1 2 proc /proc
proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap
swap defaults 0 0 What is strange is the fact that the system tries to
use /sdb1 instead of /sdc1 on reboot, even though the drive was
manually mounted using /sdc1
-- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
As a guess, the partition label is screwed up. The OS uses this
statement in fstab to attempt the mount at boot:
LABEL=/home/cj/archive /home/cj/archive ext3 defaults 1 2
and, somehow, the label gets mapped to /dev/sdb1. But this is what works:
mount -t ext2 -w /dev/sdc1 /home/cj/archive
Definitely not the same. A quick fix is to just change fstab to use the
device definition that works:
/dev/sdc1 /home/cj/archive ext3 defaults 1 2
I'm guessing there is a user program such as diskdruid to change the
partition label. Unfortunately, I don't know what it is. Perhaps
someone else on the list can enlighten both of us.
Cheers,
Dave
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