system down - can't find luns (correction)

[Ed Wilts]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:18:11PM -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.

Both have been around for quite a while and I think that labeling
predated both of them.

> 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.

No news is good news but you can verify the labels on your disk by
running e2label without a new label, for example:

[ewilts at p6000 ewilts]$ sudo e2label /dev/hda1
/boot

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