On 05/16/2014 01:29 PM, 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/ do you not partition your drive first? even if you're using the entire device? I'd expect to see this as /dev/sdf1 (or 2 or 3 or whatever). I'm not certain you -HAVE- to do such a thing.. and if I were a better person I'd experiment with a VM... (which I may still do, but it's friday, I'm still at work and I'm ready to go home)