[linux-lvm] ext2 label support for LVM in mount and e2fsck
Kirby C. Bohling
kbohling at birddog.com
Fri Nov 23 23:59:01 UTC 2001
LVM list,
I just got RH 7.2. I downloaded all the stuff to make LVM work correctly
on it. I was unpleasently surprised to find that ext2 filesystem labels
don't work correctly. That is, you can say this in the fstab:
LABEL=/usr
/usr
ext2
defaults
1
1
If the label is on any partition listed in /proc/partitions, however it
doesn't work if the label is on a logical volume.
Well I had the source, and I had a problem. Here is a link to the
patches to mount and e2fsck to make them go. I have sent them into the
respective maintainers, the mount maintainer happily took one, I haven't
heard from the e2fsck maintainer yet. So hopefully they should be in a
future version. Thought possibly somebody else out there might
appreciate them.
Disclaimer: these were only tested on one machine with one LVM setup.
If you screw up your mount or fsck utilities you will need a boot/rescue
disk handy. Patched againsted RH 7.2 source, but should work fine
against stock source.
Kirby
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