system down - can't find luns (correction)

Rigler, Stephen C. srigler at marathonoil.com
Mon May 23 17:36:15 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:18 -0500, Dana Holland wrote:
> > The purpose of the labels is to ensure that this doesn't happen - the
> > label can be anything and does not have to match the device name.  In
> > your case, a more useful label would be something like bbls.  So you
> > could have:
> > # e2label /dev/sda1 bbls
> > and in your fstab have:
> > LABEL=bbls /usr/local/bbls ...
> 
> Is this something that's different on AS 2.1 from 7.3 (which is what the 
> server was on before)?  The reason I ask is because I've never been 
> bitten by this before.
> 
> I ran the e2label command on both filesystems.  Since we have it back up 
> and running I can't risk a reboot right now to test it.  And I can't 
> tell any difference looking at /etc/fstab.  But I'm going to assume it 
> worked since there were no error messages.

Labeling has been around for some time.  Just make sure that your labels
match what fstab is looking for and you should be fine.

-Steve




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