[SOLVED] fstab device-name changes

Zahir76 · 04-13-2010, 02:51 PM

fstab first column,i.e. device names has been appended with a 1, such as:

LABEL=/ changed to LABEL=/1
LABEL=/boot changed to LABEL=/boot1
LABEL=/home changed to LABEL=/home1 ...

I was playing around with NIS server/client.
Can anyone give me some explanation of this change?

Also I noticed, I'm unable to useradd, unless 'service autofs is stopped',
I just want to understand this NIS server/client activity. Any small explanation?

Thanks, all Linux People.

hi2arun · 04-13-2010, 04:42 PM

Hi,

Devices are labeled just to fix floating device node names. This will facilitate consistent and predictable device mount behavior. Storage Devices can be identified in four ways: by label, by id, by path, by uuid.

Quote:

ls -lh /dev/disk

What error do you see while creating user account?

Zahir76 · 04-14-2010, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hi2arun

Hi,

Devices are labeled just to fix floating device node names. This will facilitate consistent and predictable device mount behavior. Storage Devices can be identified in four ways: by label, by id, by path, by uuid.

What error do you see while creating user account?

Thanks, that's good piece of information. It'd be nice if you can elaborate on how/when storage devices behavior, such as Label=/, gets affected, also in terms of NIS-environment.

Whenever I useradd in NIS-client, its unable to create /home/username directory, but after service autofs stop, it does.

Thanks, all Linux People.

Zahir76 · 04-29-2010, 09:56 AM

As it says 'fstab' is read-only file and is not written automatically, I wondered where those '1' was appended after each device. I guess it's not of an issue. If I get more info on it, I'll mark it as solved as for this thread. Thank you.