Stan, > In fact, Linux didn't recognize any ext2 partition except /, /proc, > /proc/bus/sub, /boot, and /dev/pts. Anything itemized with LABEL= in > fstab was ignored. I was hoping you could explain it to me! :-) > Well, explain what it's trying to do I can, explain why it's not working I'm still working on. :-) Visit http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?fstab+5 and read the fourth paragraph of the Description section. Each partition is "labeled" (similar, I suppose, to DOS partition labels), and mount finds that label on the partition instead of using a hard-coded device file.
A thought: Is it possible that more than one partition has been tagged with the same label (like, two partitions labels "/usr")? Maybe that's confusing it. (It's a shot in the dark, but who knows...) Follow the link on the above page to the e2label manpage for more information (and further, follow the link on that manpage to get to the tune2fs man page. "tune2fs -l /dev/hdXX" _might_ show you the label that has been assigned, but I can't check that because none of my systems use labels, sorry. Can anyone else confirm or deny this?) Ian
