mount doesn't mount on boot-up

[David G. Miller]

Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:

> I'm saying that if I mount the drive manually, it works. If I reboot 
> the machine, the drive fails to mount. I see a few error messages 
> during boot-up and it says mount failed. When the machine comes back 
> up to the desktop, I can then mount manually again, without problem. 
> My fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext2 defaults 
> 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs 
> defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 
> LABEL=/home/cj/archive /home/cj/archive ext3 defaults 1 2 proc /proc 
> proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap 
> swap defaults 0 0 What is strange is the fact that the system tries to 
> use /sdb1 instead of /sdc1 on reboot, even though the drive was 
> manually mounted using /sdc1
> -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
As a guess, the partition label is screwed up.  The OS uses this 
statement in fstab to attempt the mount at boot:

LABEL=/home/cj/archive  /home/cj/archive  ext3    defaults     1 2


and, somehow, the label gets mapped to /dev/sdb1.  But this is what works:

mount -t ext2 -w /dev/sdc1 /home/cj/archive


Definitely not the same.  A quick fix is to just change fstab to use the 
device definition that works:

/dev/sdc1	/home/cj/archive  ext3    defaults     1 2


I'm guessing there is a user program such as diskdruid to change the 
partition label.  Unfortunately, I don't know what it is.  Perhaps 
someone else on the list can enlighten both of us.

Cheers,
Dave

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