Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74720
Installer sets fstab to use lables to mount partition not touched by diskduid.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I have a drive with a partition, that is not labled. I told diskdruid to not format the drive, but to mount it to /storage. After installation, there is a failure in the boot process, where Red Hat tries to mount the drive with LABEL=/storage to /storage. Since I never labled the partition, the mount fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Red Hat Linux 8.0 on a system with an unlabled partition that you will not touch. 2. set the untouched partition to mount to some mount point. 3. boot Red Hat Linux 8.0. Actual Results: partition will fail to mount, due to not having a label. Expected Results: the drive will be mounted based on it's /dev/ entry. Additional info:
We should be labeling the partition as part of the install process even if its not being formatted -- works here for me. What does '/sbin/tune2fs -L /dev/hdaX' or whatever the partition in question is show?
'/sbin/tune2fs -L /dev/hdaX' returns a useage statement, but e2label /dev/hdb4 returns a blank line, indicating that there is no lable on the partition. I can't say that I agree with labeling my partition, if I ask the installer not to touch the drive. I would fine this quite annoying.
Labelling all partitions is the only real right answer; otherwise, people have problems when they start moving drives around. By saying to mount it, you are saying to touch it at least minimally, just that it shouldn't be reformatted -- filesystems with an existing label will keep their old label. Unfortunately I can't reproduce the problem here, either. Is this reproducible for you?
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