Re: Disk label and /etc/fstab entry?

Ramon F Herrera staggered into the Black Sun and said:
On Mar 1, 5:12 pm, "Ramon F Herrera" <r...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When posting, include context, and include complete info in the lines
that are important. Context restored and info guessed from the other
stuff you said:

/dev/sda10 /u01 ext3 noatime 1 2
Now the RedHat installation creates entries which are more flexible:
LABEL=/u01 /u01 [same as above]
but the problem is that I cannot (don't know how to) replicate that
LABEL inside the disk.

man e2label. Mounting by filesystem label can lead to problems if
you've got 2 or more filesystems with the same label, so don't do that.

however, if I add the entry above (the one without LABEL) in /etc/
fstab and mount /u01 I get mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/sda10, or too many mounted file systems
ext3: No journal on filesystem on sda10

You did mke2fs instead of mke2fs -j, so you have an ext2 filesystem
instead of an ext3 filesystem. Either use tune2fs to add a journal, or
change the fstab entry to ext2. Also, think about using LVM. It's very
flexible and nifty and gets around that 15-partition limit on SCSI
disks.

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