[linux-lvm] cant mount LV via partition/filesystem labels

[Steven Dake]

I wouldn't mind seeing the patches.

Thanks
-steve

Kirby C. Bohling wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 09:20, Ben Snyder wrote:
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>>Here's what I've got:
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>>RH7.2, kernel  2.4.9-34enterprise
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>>1 physical volume each on /dev/sda9 and /dev/sdb1
>>one logical volume over these two PV's
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>>I've labeled the filesystem via 'tune2fs' and want to use the label for 
>>mounting purposes, as is the default with the other (non-LVM) filesystems
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>>'vgscan' and 'vgchange -a y' have been performed
>>'vgdisplay' and 'lvdisplay' tell me all is well - everthing is 
>>read/write and available
>>'fsck' on the physical path reports clean...
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>>If I attempt to mount via the physical path to the LV, providing the 
>>mount point, everything works fine
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>>However, mount refuses to mount via filesystem/partition label, 
>>regardless if I use '-L' and provide the label or use the mountpoint and 
>>let mount figure it out on its own from /etc/fstab.  I get 'mount: no 
>>such partition found' (it is in /etc/fstab correctly, already checked that).
>>
>>Am I missing something about labels?  Maybe some other remedial 
>>filesystem characteristics/operations that I've missed because of 
>>cranius-up-rectus (head up a$$).
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>I'm the guy sent in the patch to add LVM label support to mount and
>e2fsprogs.  I'm not sure RedHat 7.2 includes the proper version of those
>tools at all.  I've had problems were built by RedHat.
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>The label stuff in mount and e2fsprogs reads /etc/partitions and
>searches all entries in that file for labels.  It doesn't search
>anything else.  LVM didn't (probably still doesn't) show up in etc
>partitions so label support fails.  It should search in the /proc files
>that have the LVM stuff to find them, and search for those.  That's what
>I added to the code, but I haven't seen it work since I sent in the
>patch.
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>It's not hard to modify the code, I didn't bother figuring out why the
>redhat tools fails.  It wasn't terribly important to me.  If you want to
>look at it I will.  If nothing else I can send you a patch that you can
>use to rebuild your source RPM with.
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>	Thanks,
>		Kirby
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>>Thanks in advance for feedback/suggestions.
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