On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote:
> Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. > It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when installing > etch). > I tried this: > > e2label /dev/hdb4 > xyz > e2label /dev/hdb4 store > e2label /dev/hdb4 > store > So seemingly the label has changed. > I edited /etc/fstab accordingly: > > changing /dev/hdb4 /xyz ext3 defaults 0 2 > to /dev/hdb4 /store ext3 defaults > 0 2 > > Then I rebooted, only to find this message popping up during boot time: > > mount: mount point /store does not exist > > There was no further error during boot time and kde was up and running. > Then I'd reset everything and could mount and access /xyz as before. > > What did I do wrong and how do I change /xyz to /store? You're confusing disk lables with mount points. Your fstab doesn't have disklables in it. You told mount to mount /dev/hdb4 on /store, so it looks for the directory /store, which doesn't exist. So backup: What are you trying to do? Doug.
Hi Doug, After fiddling around with sarge for some months, I installed etch a couple of weeks ago. I've done lots of reading and I'm following this list for a while, but I'm new to debian anyway. I have 4 partitions on my 2nd hd, swap, /tmp, /var & /xyz. /xyz is the 4th primary partition on my 2nd hd. When installing etch, at some point partman asked for a mount point for that partition and I entered /xyz. I use this xyz partition only to store some .iso's and other large files, so I want rename/relabel it to /store. If I do mkdir /store, that would create the dir/mount point on my 1st hd where / is located (correct?). Thus the question is: how to change /xyz to /store on my 2nd hd, so I can do eg. something like this: mv ~/*.iso /store so it moves *.iso from ~ on my 1st hd to /store on my 2nd hd. Greetings, Manon. @ Joe Heart
What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search.
I fould e2label in /sbin, read the man and tried to use it.
What is it today, national "People from other distros" day?
Huh? Sounds like a warm 'welcome to debian' to me. I guess you don't have the monopoly of wisdom too. BTW: it's SHE, not he. Anyway, greetings to you too, Manon.