On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:07:38PM +0000, Keith Roberts wrote: > > Maybe e2fsck was getting confused at having two partitions with the > same partition label on the system? Well, the blkid library, specifically, was getting confused. E2fsck uses the blkid library to map LABEL= and UUID= references to device names. One thing that you might do for devices that are always present (which generally means you're not changing them in your /etc/fstab often) is to use a UUID= reference instead. They are definitely less convenient than labels, but they are also much less likely to cause confusion by having duplicately labelled file systems. Granted, no one wants to *type* "mount UUID=9e132c06-1fd0-4bbd-ad06-5995a8f45b26"; they'd much rather type "mount LABEL=websites". But if the only place the a UUID=... specification shows up is in /etc/fstab, it might be worth it. Then you can just zap the label on file systems that you only plan to reference via UUID, and then that reduces the chances for confusion in the future. Best regards, > PS Are there any PDF docs that would give me an overview of the ext3 > FS, and how it works? Try the list of Articles and Publications here: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Publications - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
