USB storage devices and /etc/fstab

[Aldo Foot]

On Dec 13, 2007 5:38 PM, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:41 -0600, J Taylor wrote:
> > I have multiple USB storages devices that are assigned to different
> /dev/sd*
> > files.  My problem is that a given device does not always have the same
> file
> > name and I have to manually edit /etc/fstab to mount them.  Is there a
> way
> > around this?
>
> The easiest way is to label the filesystems and edit your /etc/fstab to
> use the labels instead of the device names.  Find one of your devices
> (assume it's at /dev/sda1):
>
>        # e2label /dev/sda1 bugaboo
>
> Then put a line such as:
>
> LABEL=/bugaboo    /bugaboo        ext3    noauto,user,rw        1 2
>
> in /etc/fstab.  That device should always mount at /bugaboo.  Note
> that the hotplug system will mount it at /media/bugaboo if you plug it
> in later.
>
>
I did  what's suggested with two partitions in my slave drive. But the
partitions
won't mount.  When I boot the system an error occurs halting the boot
process:
  "fcsk.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/stor1"

Here's my fstab.
$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/1          /           ext3    defaults    1 1
LABEL=/stor1    /stor1    ext3    defaults    1 2
LABEL=/stor2    /stor2    ext3    defaults    1 2

The devices seems to be properly labeled
# e2label /dev/sdb1
stor1
# e2label /dev/sdb2
stor2

The OS install process labeled root as "/1", does that have anything to do
with the problem?

why does it not work as expected?

~af
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