FC2 install/upgrade problem

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Thu Jun 17 12:56:27 UTC 2004



patemery at emerynet.net wrote:

>I have RedHat 7.2 on a system and it is a functioning stable system. I wish
>to upgrade to FC2 but I'm getting an error before the installation even gets
>started. I'm getting the following error.
>
><quote>
>Duplicate Labels
>
>Multiple devices on your system are labelled /. Labels across devices must be
>unique for system to function properly.
>
>Please fix this problem and restart the installation process.
></quote>
>
>I checked my fstab and I don't see the offending duplicate labels. Does
>anyone have any suggestions? Here is my fstab
>  
>
This is not an fstab error.
You are usingf device names in the fstab so labels are ignored.
You have 2 partitions on this machine with the label "/"

the fix is to
1) use e2label to identify these 2 partitions and change the label on one

>[pat at heart core2]$ more /etc/fstab
>/dev/hda2               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
>/dev/hdc2               /mnt/data1              ext2    defaults        0 2
>/dev/hdd1               /mnt/data2              ext2    defaults        0 2
>none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>\\dad\cdrive            /mnt/dad                smb     noauto,user,rw  0 0
>\\dad\jukebox           /mnt/jukebox            smb     noauto,users,rw 0 0
>
>Thanks,
>Pat
>
>
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