Hiya,

I put a new SATA drive in my machine today and I'm having a little problem with the mount. I created the filesystem with the following command:

mkfs.ext3 -L /r2 /dev/sda

and then I put this in /etc/fstab

LABEL=/r2 /r2 ext3 defaults 1 2

but on boot I get the message "Unable to resolve LABEL=/r2"

If I comment it the LABEL out of /etc/fstab and wait for the box to boot and then do a mount /r2 it mounts fine.

My guess is that it doesn't "see" the SATA drive at the correct point in the boot process.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Thoalex

I suspect this is an issue with your choice of label. Why did you use /r2 instead of something more "readable" like SATA2 or whatever?

Like below:
mkfs.ext3 -L SATA2 /dev/sda

LABEL=SATA2 /r2 ext3 defaults 1 2

EDIT: You can always use tunefs to change the label without reformating... if you think this might be an issue and could help.

I just am not sure about / in a label... although I can't seem to find a prohibition against it.

Well, the reason I chose it is that's what the system has chosen when it was installed.

For example, this is the fstab entry for /boot

LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2

the LABEL isn't the issue however as this doesn't work either

/dev/sda1 /r1 ext3 defaults 1 2

*bump* I still haven't figured this out yet. Currently I've stuck a "mount -a" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local