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Re: root mount mislabled..

To: Joseph Southwell <joseph@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: root mount mislabled..
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:27:01 +1100
Cc: Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <CE3977C27DC7CE42A5D4EAC5B8049513B6FECC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from joseph@xxxxxx on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:33:35AM -0500
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hi,

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:33:35AM -0500, Joseph Southwell wrote:
> mtab is being populated by calling mount -f. Root is set to LABEL=/ in
> /etc/fstab, if I change it to /dev/hda1 I get stopped during boot up
> because fsck tries to run and determines that the partition isn't ext2.

This particular problem, ie. the fsck frontend not understanding
"LABEL=" and "UUID=" for XFS filesystems, has now been fixed in
the current e2fsprogs release (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/)
- version 1.24 is the first with the fix, I believe.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan


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