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.