e2lable

[Tom Greaser]

would someone tell me what im missing. 
I did an fdisk / mkfs.ext3 / e2lable 
now.. the e2lable shows the correct info 
e2label /dev/sda1 
/var 
but when i put that in my fstab it errors on boot.. 
cant find /var~~~~ you get the point.. 
 
here is what i put in my fstab 
LABEL=/var              /var                   ext3    defaults        1
2 
 
and no.. the is no other disk with that lable in the system.!! 
 
Thanks e2fsprogs-1.38 rpm