[CentOS] unable to mount centos hard drive
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Tue Jan 30 03:11:33 UTC 2007
Peter Serwe wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> After I sent this it occurred to me that filesystem labels may be
>> biting you. Probably, you have two partitions with each filesystem
>> label. Linux tends to choose the Wrong One.
>>
>> Change /etc/fstab to use device names instead of filesystem labels.
>>
>> "mount the other partition" still applies, but if you're using LVM
>> the device name has a long and convoluted name, and I don't know how
>> you "mount the other one."
>
> Filesystem labels suck. I've had them break on single systems shortly
> after installation, therefore,
> as part of my install process, I go through and 'fix' them to reflect
> the actual device/partition names
> instead. Filesystem labels should be dragged through the mud, by a
> wild horse, kicked in the nads,
> and burned at the stake.
and I've had Linux decide to renumber its SCSI devices when I added a
SAN logical unit on a system with both fiberchannel and ISCSI interfaces.
without labels, it would mounted the wrong file system.
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