That was how I got the LABEL and UUID: [root ~]# /usr/sbin/xfs_admin -lu /dev/sdb label = "/mysql2" UUID = 2560a02a-239b-4ac5-affe-cf71f8e87150 cn=John Shen,title=Sys. Admin.,ou=Operations,dc=StumbleUpon,dc=com ----- Original Message ----- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:03:37 +0100 From: James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Re: xfs volume can not be mounted with uuid or label, only scsi device name /dev/sdb 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