David: Thanks for taking the time to help - see comments below On Tue October 31 2006 10:46 pm, David G. Miller wrote: > 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 > This is supposedly what should work, if I'm reading all the man pages correctly - that's the entry that had been created automatically by whatever process does that > > and, somehow, the label gets mapped to /dev/sdb1. But this is what works: > > mount -t ext2 -w /dev/sdc1 /home/cj/archive > Here's where the mystery begins - that command *does* work, but, it's incorrect! The file system is ext3 not ext2 - I know they're related, but, I just experimented, and I can mount manually using that command with either ext2 OR ext3??? > > 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've tried this, but, it still doesn't work - > > 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. > tune2fs is supposed to be able to do this, but I couldn't grasp the explanation of how it works well enough to attempt it when I tried in somewhat of a hurry a couple of weeks ago -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
