On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 KAlleyne@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > Any help that someone can give me on this would be great.... > > I configured a RedHat Enterprise WS (version 3) this week. The machine has > 2 hard drives 1 30GB which has on all of the OS stuff and also 1 80GB drive > which host all of the data that we will be using to store data from an > application we will be loading later. During the install only the 30GB > drive was partitioned and formated, I then partitioned the 80GB drive in > the OS. > > These were the steps I took: > > 1) Created a single partition on the 80GB drive using the parted utility > (new partition was /dev/hdd1). > 2) Formated the new partition with an ext3 filesystem using mkfs > 3) Used /sbin/devlabel to label the partition as /data > 4) Created a mount point for the partition > 5) Added the line below to /etc/fstab: > > LABEL=/data /data ext3 defaults 1 > 2 > > The problem arose when the machine was restarted, it failed during the boot > process due to a label that could not be found, I had to go to maintenance > mode and edit the /etc/fstab file to get the machine back up again. > > Point to note, I had been using the process to create a partition as > described in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 System Administration Guide > however, after 2 tries I changed the second step from using the e2label to > using devlabel. Short term, you could comment out the LABEL=/data line, and replicate it, using /dev/hdb1 (or whichever device your drive has been assigned). You could also try using e2label to reset the label. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
