Writing to fstab

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:18, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 10:56, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>>Something strange is happening in my attempts to write to fstab.  I have
> >>>added, for instance,
> >>>
> >>>LABEL=/OldData
> >>>/dev/hdb9               /mnt/data               ext3    users 1 2
> >>>
> >>>then umounted the manual mount of /mnt/data and run
> >>>
> >>>[root at david ~]# mount -a
> >>>mount: mount point  does not exist
> >>>
> >>>However, the mount occurs and /mnt/data is readable in konqueror.
> >>>
> >>>Clearly there is some sort of problem, but what?
> >>
> >>There appears to be two lines:
> >>
> >>LABEL=/OldData
> >>
> >>This line does not have enough fields and is the one mount complains
> >> about.
> >>
> >>/dev/hdb9               /mnt/data               ext3    users 1 2
> >>
> >>This line has the right number of fields and hence works.
> >
> > Hi, Paul.  I copied from the existing entries, not realising that the
> > display had split the lines.  However, I not get
> >
> > [mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
> > [mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad
> > [mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad
> > [mntent]: line 12 in /etc/fstab is bad
> >
> > These are my entries:
> >
> > LABEL=/OldData          /dev/hdb9               /mnt/data              
> > ext3 users           1 2
> > LABEL=/home_july05      /dev/hdb7               /mnt/home_july05       
> > ext3 users           1 2
> > LABEL=/mnt/home_dec05   /dev/hdb11              /mnt/home_dec05        
> > ext3 users           1 2
> > LABEL=OldVideo          /dev/hdb8               /mnt/video             
> > ext3 users           1 2
> >
> > In each case KWrite is highlighting the final parameter.  I know that
> > these parameters concern checking, but I don't much much else, so again I
> > copied from the existing /home line.
> >
> > Advice, please?
>
> The LABEL= syntax is an alternative to specifying the device/partition.
> So you'd use
>
> LABEL=/OldData
>
> *instead of*
>
> /dev/hdb9
>
> rather than in addition to it. The filesystem can be labelled using
> e2label. This syntax can help when actual device names are prone to
> changing (more often the case with SCSI drives than IDE ones).
>
> You're probably better off just dispensing with the LABEL= field
> altogether in this case.
>
That seems to have fixed it, Paul.  Thanks.  Time for more reading ;-)

Anne
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