On 12 Feb 2001, Pete (Hawk) wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just reinstalled Redhat 7.0 and done the upgrades and I'm
> told I need a 2.4 kernel to get support for my UDMA 66 drives,..
>
> So I tried up dateing the kernel to 2.4 and it won't boot as it give
> an error : LABEL=/ invallid ext2 can't mount or something close
>
> So I pop of to look at my fstab to see whats up and find the following:
>
[snip]
>
> Whats with the LABEL thing does this not use /dev/hdc6 /home etc any
> more?
>
> And why is this a problem for the 2.4 kernel to mount
>
> Cheers
> Pete
>
I am not sure why it is a problem with kernel 2.4. Using LABEL instead
of the device name for mounting ext2 partitions has been around for a
while (5.x?) The old syntax also works. The advantage of using LABEL
is that the device can change without requiring change in /etc/fstab.
This can be real handy with SCSI drives, where the device can change
when you add another drive in the change. If you have 3 drives, with
IDs 0, 1 and 2, and the drive #2 (ID 1) dies, drive #3 changes from
/dev/sdc to /dev/sdb. For IDE drives, it is handy if you do something
like move a drive from secondary master to primary slave...
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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