/boot partition mislabeled on last reinstall - need advice on how to fix

[Joachim Backes]

Claude Jones wrote:
> I did a fresh install of FC5 about three weeks ago. 
> I have three drives in this machine, all SATA, which I set up 
> under the custom partitioning option:
> 
> sda is 200GB
> It was supposed to be: 
> 500 MB sda1 formatted as ext2 and mounted as  /boot
> 2 GB sda2 formatted as swap
> the rest formatted as ext 3 and mounted as  /
> 
> sdb is 300 GB
> sdb1 is formatted as ext3, takes up the whole drive, and is 
> mounted as  /home
> 
> sdc is 500 GB 
> formatted as ext3 and is mounted as /home/cj/archive
> 
> I just realized this is not what happened. 
> sda1 got labelled as /boot1 and is not mounted
> /boot is therefore mounted under / which is on sda3
> 
> I had some strange log messages for awhile reporting smart errors 
> on sda - after running various diagnostics on it, I ended up 
> running Spinrite on that drive for 18 hours, which found 
> nothing - since then, the log errors have not reappeared
> 
> In the  course of trouble shooting those log reports, I discovered 
> this issue with sda1 being mislabeled.
> I'm pretty careful when partitioning, and I check and recheck 
> things - I can't imagine I let a typo like that get past me, 
> though anything is possible. 
> 
> So, my first question is, can anyone think of any thing that could 
> have caused that to happen besides a typo? 
> 
> My second question is about strategy. I'd like to return /boot to 
> sda1 - any suggestions on how to go about that would be 
> appreciated.

Reboot with rescue disk or Knoppix, relable the desired partitions for example with tune2fs, and 
modify your /etc/fstab before rebooting into your old system. Is this what you meant?

This whole area of how file systems get mounted has
> been changing over the past 6-12 months, and I'm having a hard 
> time getting my brain wrapped around the best way to go about 
> this.
> 


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