Bug 27378 - mount cant use a 16 character LABEL= field in /etc/fstab
Summary: mount cant use a 16 character LABEL= field in /etc/fstab
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mount
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-13 12:46 UTC by Nick Craig-Wood
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-13 14:50:39 UTC
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Description Nick Craig-Wood 2001-02-13 12:46:42 UTC 
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I made a seperate partition for /var/spool/squid in the installer.  e2label
set the label correctly (it is 16 characters long and therefore ok
according to man e2label).  However with LABEL=/var/spool/squid in
/etc/fstab mount -a refuses to mount the
disk.  Shortening the label to < 16 chars fixes the problem.

This is probably an unterminated buffer problem (strncpy is my guess ;-)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. umount /partiton
2. e2label /dev/hdX abcdef0123456789
3. vi /etc/fstab set LABEL=abcdef0123456789 for /partition instead of
/dev/hdX
4. mount /partition
	

Actual Results:  Step 4 gives the error
mount: special device LABEL=abcdef0123456789 does not exist


Expected Results:  It should have mounted the partition

Shortening the LABEL name to 15 characters fixes the problem
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-02-13 14:50:36 UTC 
This is fixed in the current version.
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