John Shen wrote: > sorry for the confusion, i did use the uppercase in fstab. > > # neither of the following works > # UUID=2560a02a-239b-4ac5-affe-cf71f8e87150 /var/lib/mysql xfs noatime 0 0 > #LABEL=/mysql2 /var/lib/mysql xfs noatime 0 0 > # only this works > /dev/sdb /var/lib/mysql xfs noatime 0 0 What does xfs_admin report about the label and uuid? : /usr/sbin/xfs_admin -lu /dev/sdb James Pearson