[CentOS] unable to mount centos hard drive

Tue Jan 30 03:11:33 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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.