At 21:04 16-10-2002 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Dunno, I tested a whole disk with xfs and ext2, and neither could mount
by label.
The answer was already given, complete devices don't show up in
/proc/partitions so the disk will not get scanned for mount by label.
Just make one large partition.
-Eric
On 16 Oct 2002, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 19:49, Stephen Lord wrote:
> > ...
> > > > I then added LABEL=name /mountpoint xfs defaults 1 2 and I can't
> > mount
> > > > LABEL=name. Did I do something wrong in that scenario?
> > >
> > > as a side note to this, I didn't make any partitions, I'm just using
> > the
> > > whole disk. I dunno if that makes a difference but thought I'd ask.
> >
> > Not sure, the mount command scans everything which appears in
> > /proc/partitions if your filesystem is in there it should work,
> > provided the items I just mentioned are taken care of.
>
> Gotcha. I'll check it out. :)
>
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> > Steve
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