Raghuv Adhepalli wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like your opinion on the following question, why this happens in > centos and how to fix this (or a possible work around). > > I have a drive with no partitions and formatted with xfs filesystem. I > give the drive a custom label "mydrive" and I mount it under > /dev/mountpnts/mydrive. > Then, I add a corresponding entry to fstab. > > These, are the steps I followed, > > mkfs.xfs -L mydrive -f /dev/sdf > mkdir /dev/mountpnts/mydrive > mount -L mydrive /dev/mountpnts/mydrive/ > > cat /etc/fstab, > LABEL=mydrive /dev/mountpnts/mydrive xfs > noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8 0 0 > > These steps mount the drive under the mount point specified. > > If I remove the drive and insert it back in after a while, the drive > doesn't mount, even though I have the required entry in fstab. Clarify, please: you *did* umount it before removing, correct? > > `mount -a` doesn't seem to work and provides me the following output, > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdj, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > <snip> Was there anything significant in dmesg? mark