On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:28:17AM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > The RH 7.2 drive used to be the boot drive for another system. Now I just > > want to use it as additional storage in my RH 9 system. Hope this clarifies > > my system problems. > > RH uses labels to identify partitions to mount (rather than using device > names), so you will tend to have something like:- > > LABEL=/usr /usr ... > > instead of > > /dev/hda6 /usr ... > > in your fstab (NB I might have got the syntax a little wrong in the > first one - I don't use labels myself). > > The labels applied to the partitions by the installer are directly > related to the mount point the filesystem would use. So if you are > reusing a drive from another installation you may well have the same > label on 2 partitions on different drives, with "interesting" results. > > Easiest fix is probably to replace the labels in fstab with hardwired > device names. Alternative is to use e2label to modify the labels used - > or just repartition the drive you have imported. Or use UUID's in /etc/fstab instead of Labels. UUID's look uglier in /etc/fstab, but they have the advantage of being unique, so long as you don't use dd to copy filesystems around. (And if you do use dd to clone a filesystem, you should use the command "tune2fs -U random /dev/hdXXX" to set a new random UUID for the copy of the filesystem.) The advantage of useing LABEL or UUID in /etc/fstab is that his way, you don't get screwed when a scsi or ide controller is removed, and the device names get renumbered. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
