[CentOS] Re-mount a drive using its label name

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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)