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RE: root mount mislabled..

To: "Nathan Straz" <nstraz@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: root mount mislabled..
From: "Joseph Southwell" <joseph@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:41:50 -0500
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: root mount mislabled..
The filesystem type was the problem. Thank for your patience.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Straz [mailto:nstraz@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:36 AM
To: Joseph Southwell
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: root mount mislabled..


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.
> I went into the single user shell it gave me there and df/mount are
> still disagreeing with rdev so that broke something and didn't solve
the
> problem. Any other ideas?

Did you change the file system type in /etc/fstab?  Maybe we need to see
a copy of your /etc/fstab, just two double check.

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Nate Straz                                              nstraz@xxxxxxx
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