I wouldn't mind seeing the patches. Thanks -steve Kirby C. Bohling wrote: >On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 09:20, Ben Snyder wrote: > > >>Here's what I've got: >> >>RH7.2, kernel 2.4.9-34enterprise >> >>1 physical volume each on /dev/sda9 and /dev/sdb1 >>one logical volume over these two PV's >> >>I've labeled the filesystem via 'tune2fs' and want to use the label for >>mounting purposes, as is the default with the other (non-LVM) filesystems >> >>'vgscan' and 'vgchange -a y' have been performed >>'vgdisplay' and 'lvdisplay' tell me all is well - everthing is >>read/write and available >>'fsck' on the physical path reports clean... >> >>If I attempt to mount via the physical path to the LV, providing the >>mount point, everything works fine >> >>However, mount refuses to mount via filesystem/partition label, >>regardless if I use '-L' and provide the label or use the mountpoint and >>let mount figure it out on its own from /etc/fstab. I get 'mount: no >>such partition found' (it is in /etc/fstab correctly, already checked that). >> >>Am I missing something about labels? Maybe some other remedial >>filesystem characteristics/operations that I've missed because of >>cranius-up-rectus (head up a$$). >> >> >> > >I'm the guy sent in the patch to add LVM label support to mount and >e2fsprogs. I'm not sure RedHat 7.2 includes the proper version of those >tools at all. I've had problems were built by RedHat. > >The label stuff in mount and e2fsprogs reads /etc/partitions and >searches all entries in that file for labels. It doesn't search >anything else. LVM didn't (probably still doesn't) show up in etc >partitions so label support fails. It should search in the /proc files >that have the LVM stuff to find them, and search for those. That's what >I added to the code, but I haven't seen it work since I sent in the >patch. > >It's not hard to modify the code, I didn't bother figuring out why the >redhat tools fails. It wasn't terribly important to me. If you want to >look at it I will. If nothing else I can send you a patch that you can >use to rebuild your source RPM with. > > Thanks, > Kirby > > > > > > >>Thanks in advance for feedback/suggestions. >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>linux-lvm mailing list >>linux-lvm@sistina.com >>http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
