Hi

When building a RH 7.0 system I made a mistake in regard to
misnaming a mount point for a file system.  I intended the mount point
to be /usr/share but (at Xam I typed /var/share.

Initially, in /etc/fstab it appeared as

LABEL=/var/share  /var/share   ext2  defaults   1 2

        which I thought was a bit strange because I anticipated
        something like

/dev/sda7          /var/share  ext2 defaults   1 2


In order to correct this mistake I had to remove the LABEL=/ entries in
fstab and replace them with the names of the disk partitions I wanted the
mount points to be located thereon (i.e. apealing to the "old-style" layut
.  It wasn't as simple as merely changing the LABLE=/entry.

Also, reading  at man mount and man fstab no mention is made of the
new fstab layout which stikes me as odd also.  A man -k doesnt
yield anything useful either

The system seems to be ok with a rejiged /etc/fstab (using the old style)

/dev/sda7    /usr/share   ext2   defaults   1 2

although, via the bootup messages,  bootup the system mounted is referred
to as /var/share  so the system is picking the original mountpoint name
from "somewhere".  BTW I coudn't see anything obvious in the rc...
boot files either

any comments ?

cheers,

Kyle Hargraves




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