[CentOS] unable to mount centos hard drive

Tue Jan 30 02:58:05 UTC 2007
Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet.com>

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.

Peter

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