On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:34 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > 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? > Also, did the drive change from sdf to sdj due to being removed/reinserted? What does parted or fdisk show about said drive? > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos