On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:03 -0500, Bob St John wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for the pointer. I tried to use e2label to label all partitions > and got: > > bash-3.2# e2label /dev/sda2 ntfs > e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2 > Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. > > So I think I've got a more complex problem. Any thoughts? Why are you trying to use e2label on an NTFS filesystem? That won't work. You need ntfslabel ("yum install ntfsprogs"). > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:27 -0500, peter volsted wrote: > > Bob > > > > In your on-disk version of 'Release Notes' find the URL for the updated > > online version and read about the necessity to label your partitions and > > correct your fstab. > > > > kind regards > > > > peter > > > > > Bob St John wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > > > I upgraded from FC6 to FC7 and many applications that I had on FC6 fail > > > to start on FC7. > > > > > > I apparently have some uninitialized disk partitions: > > > > > > /dev/sda1 = / root (EXT3) > > > /dev/sda2 = Unmounted Windows XP partition (dual boot system) > > > /dev/sda3 = Unmounted EXT3 partition > > > /dev/sda4 = Unmounted SWAP partition > > > > > > I suspect that /etc/fstabs is important in this case: > > > > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > > > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > > > /dev/sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > > > > What is the problem and how can I fix it? > > > > > > Thanks . . . > > > > > > Bob St. John > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------