Re: Is there something special I need to do?

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:21:31AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:04:29PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Dunno, I tested a whole disk with xfs and ext2, and neither could mount
> > by label.
> 
> That's because whole disks are not in /proc/partitions.
> 

They are, the problem is mount explicitly skips them (see
util-linux/mount/mount_by_label.c::uuid_cache_init...)

                ...
                for(s = ptname; *s; s++);
                if (isdigit(s[-1])) {
                        ...[do good stuff]...
                }

and right there we've skipped over anything thats not a
partition.  Why mount does this, I have no idea - we'll
have to ask Andries (aeb@xxxxxx), the util-linux guru.

cheers.

--
Nathan