Hi Darin, I'm not on debian-user and I don't even use debian, but I ran into the same problem and thought I'd pass on what I figured out (I ran across your post while googling).
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Darin Strait wrote: > Running 2.4.21-2-686 and tracking unstable. > > Every few months, I try re-arranging my USB2/Firewire drives. I wind up trying > to get mount -L label to work, only to fail and give up. FWIW, "335" are the > last three digits from the serial number on the case of the drive. > > kiyone:/etc# grep 335 /etc/fstab > label=/335 /mnt/335 ext3 noauto,rw 0 0 That should be LABEL=/335. > kiyone:/etc# e2label /dev/sda1 > /335 > > kiyone:/etc# ls -l /mnt > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 27 13:05 335 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 20 04:08 sda1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 12:47 sdb1 > > kiyone:/etc# mount -L /335 > Segmentation fault > > kiyone:/etc# mount -L 335 > Segmentation fault > > kiyone:/etc# mount -L335 > Segmentation fault After investigating the source for mount, I discovered that the underlying problem is not having devfs mounted. Since I didn't want to run operationally with devfs, here's what I did. I have DEVFS support built into the kernel but not automatically mounted: gwiz% grep DEVFS /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y # CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set I then created the following entry in /etc/fstab: none /dev2 devfs defaults 0 0 and did a "mkdir /dev2". If not rebooting first, also do a "mount /dev2". Finally I did: cd /dev ln -s /dev2/scsi All of the above will let mount find the device files such as /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5. Once this is done, you should be able to do the "mount -L /335" or "mount /mnt/335" (using your /etc/fstab entry). If you run with devfs automatically mounted then it should just work without doing anything special. -Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]