disk mounting madness

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I've never trusted in labels. Use the long device names instead. I know
the advanteges of labels but in server environement it doesn't give you
too much. If the devices are changing too often in a server that means
bigger problems.

bye,
ago
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> I've got a server running CentOS 4.2; installed as 4.1, kept updated by
> yum.
>
> A few days ago it crashed.
>
> I picked it up from the datacenter, and brought it back to the office,
> where it took a long time to boot because it couldn't find anything.
>
> When it finally booted and I logged in I discovered an interesting
> problem.
>
> Only the / partition had loaded.  /etc/fstab had all the partitions
> recognized by their labels.
>
> Checking the hard drives showed the labels existed.  I even rewrote the
> disk labels.
>
> But the boot procedure couldn't find the drives by their labels.
>
> Nor can a "mount -a" command; it says it can't find the info in fstab
> (though it _is_ there).
>
> But long version mount commands work.
>
> And when I redo the fstab file to list the devices rather than labels,
> everything mounts as it should.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff
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