On Friday 05 December 2003 16:51, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:34, glenn wrote: > > Harry - Thanks for your response. I tried this and got a new > > message on boot: > > > > mount: label=/root duplicate - not mounted > > > > I guess this means I will have to relabel all six of the > > partitions on my second drive? Sounds like time for a rant (at > > Red Hat, Harry, not at you): > > If I might make a suggestion, have you tried going into rescue mode > and editing fstab to replace all LABELS with partition names? This > is one of the reasons I dislike RH's switch to labels back around > 7.2(?). Just change your device column to list stuff like /dev/hda1, > /dev/hda2, etc. > > HTH. > >I had to do this recently on a single drive laptop. >Beginning with RH9 the machine would boot up perhaps >3 times out of 10 with his "duplicate" error message above >and only '/' would be mounted after it came up (out of >about 6 mount points that should be mounted). I had >no problems on RH 7.3 like this and now Fedora does the same >thing as RH9. > >After changing to the device names instead of the labels in >fstab all is well again. > >Regards, Mike Klinke I thought about replacing the labels with partition names, but I wonder if the same thing will happen if I reboot after backing up from one drive to the other. Since I will be copying the partitions to the backup drive, both drives will still end up with the same /etc/fstab. -Glenn. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
