On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 07:49:54PM +0530, Ajay Ramaswamy wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just stated playing around with the installer and making some
> modifications to it when I noticed some problems
> ...
[I'll leave the other questions to Eric/Martin as they know much more
about the Redhat installer than I do.]
> 4. When I use the XFS 1.0.2 cd in rescue mode it complains that it cannot
> find the filesystems that are specified by LABEL= tags in fstab.
Do you know what complains? Is it mount? fsck? or something else?
The code to support XFS labels has been in mount for a long time, so
I would not expect it to be the problem. fsck was only updated more
recently (2/3 months ago) so this might be the problem (might need a
newer version of e2fsprogs on the rescue CD?).
> I see that the label is assigned by
>
> + def labelDevice(self, entry, chroot):
> + devicePath = entry.device.setupDevice(chroot)
> + label = labelFactory.createLabel(entry.mountpoint,
> self.maxLabelChars)
> + db_cmd = "label " + label
> + rc = iutil.execWithRedirect("/usr/sbin/xfs_db",
> + ["xfs_db", "-x", "-c", db_cmd,
> devicePath],+ stdout = "/dev/tty5",
> + stderr = "/dev/tty5")
> + if rc:
> + raise SystemError
> + entry.setLabel(label)
> +
>
> in dispatch.py, but when I do man xfs_db I cannot find any way to set the
> label with command label.
>
I'll add something to the man page today.
thanks.
--
Nathan
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