F7 Disk Label Question

punt · 06-19-2007, 06:11 PM

Hi,

I upgraded to F7 and am running into a strange issue that seems to be related to the Kernel (FC6 kernel boots, F7 does not).

When I read the upgrade page at Ioncannon, it mentioned specific release notes to define disks that may not have labels.

I have a second hard drive in this box. It has always been defined as such:

Code:

/dev/hdb1               /backup                 ext3    defaults        1 2

When I booted up to it, however, it failed on me.

Code:

fsck.ext3: no such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb1

So I tried to work with the labels as suggested.

Code:

# /sbin/blkid 
/dev/hda1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="d013bf1d-24a6-4783-9a76-9ee868545878" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/hda2: LABEL="/usr" UUID="5099995d-25d4-492b-a112-2e4593fd1098" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/hda3: LABEL="/" UUID="32487332-43d4-4891-bde4-dcb7ddf69c62" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/hda5: LABEL="/var" UUID="b42303bf-217e-4dae-8c9e-74c8a15b6cf1" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/hda6: LABEL="/home" UUID="19a96e70-8322-42bf-b27f-11902d45cfb3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/hda7: LABEL="ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ" UUID="beb8c208-5f4e-4c28-8635-1072806ecb05" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/hdb1: LABEL="/backup" UUID="0a06ff14-b26d-4008-9ae6-679d9c760456" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

I seem to have the label defined properly from what I can determine. But I don't know what belongs in my fstab now and that seems to be causing this bootup problem. What do I do?

Thanks in advance.

punt · 06-20-2007, 06:26 AM

Nobody knows?

syg00 · 06-20-2007, 06:56 AM

You have to change the line in fstab as the referenced page at ioncannon states.

punt · 06-20-2007, 08:06 AM

ioncannon says this:

Code:

LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2

I used variations of these, and it failed for me.

Code:

/dev/hdb1               /backup                 ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/backup          /dev/hdb1               ext3    defaults        1 2

So basically I am asking rather than making me assume what I should put -- what exactly should I be using?

neo_cool_XIIK · 06-20-2007, 01:40 PM

off the top of my mind ...i believe that the labeling system now labels even idea hrd drives as serial ones 'cause of kernel changes, so hdb would be sdb, read the release notes

syg00 · 06-20-2007, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ioncannon

edit your /etc/fstab to use the label on boot instead of the device.

Then follows an example, which you quoted above. The device specification needs to change, not the mount-point. Try this:

Code:

LABEL=/backup          /backup               ext3    defaults        1 2

This appears to be Fedoras way around the name change introduced with the libata changes in 2.6.19 - I've never liked their use of labels in the past, and this will only make things worse.

punt · 06-20-2007, 04:32 PM

syg00: thanks. Exactly what I needed.

I agree with the confusion related to this. I wish it remained consistent for sake of simplicity.