mount doesn't mount on boot-up [OT]

[David G. Miller]

Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 20:46 -0700, David G. Miller wrote:
>   
>> > I'm guessing there is a user program such as diskdruid to change the 
>> > partition label.  Unfortunately, I don't know what it is. 
>>     
>
> apropos label
>
> e2label              (8)  - Change the label on an ext2/ext3 filesystem
> findfs               (8)  - Find a filesystem by label or UUID
> mlabel               (1)  - make an MSDOS volume label
> ppmlabel             (1)  - add text to a PPM image
> vol_id               (8)  - probe filesystem type and read label and uuid
>
> man e2label
A more correct explanation as to why I didn't know the command is I 
usually don't bother with partition labels.  If I add a drive to a 
system, I've usually found it easier to just change fstab to use the 
actual device for any affected partitions.  There's probably a good 
reason to use labels instead of devices but I'm not aware of what that 
reason is.  Not sure why the OP is having problems and using the device 
in fstab doesn't seem to be working for him.  It works from the command 
line which makes no sense.

My first exposure to man pages was on HP-UX (late 1980s) so I prefer 
"man -k" to apropos.  Besides, fewer letters to type. :D

Cheers,
Dave

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