----- Original message from Troy Dawson on Thu May 24 18:06:22 2007 -----
> 
> Hi,
> Does anyone have a real RHEL4 machine so we can verify that this is the 
> upstream vendor?
> I haven't looked into the nfs stuff yet, but the original bug was fairly 
> easy to reproduce.
> 
> Make two partitions right next to each other. (example: hda10 and hda11)
> Make the first partition an ext3 partition, and label it. (example: MYLABEL)
> Make the second partition a dos or vfat partition, be sure to make the 
> filesystem.
> Edit your /etc/fstab and put both of them in.  For the ext3 device, use 
> a LABEL.
> Run "mount -a"
> 
> You will get an error similar to
> 
>   mount: the label MYLABEL occurs on both /dev/hda10 and /dev/hda11
> 
> 
> In this example, the two important lines in your fstab would look like
> 
> LABEL=MYLABEL	/mnt/linux	ext3	defaults	1 2
> /dev/hda15	/mnt/dos	vfat    defaults	0 0
> 
> If someone could try this on a real RHEL4 machine I would appreciate it. 
>   If they find that it's their bug, if they would file a bugzilla 
> report, that would be even greater.
> 

       Hello,

       unfortunately I don't have any real REHL4.
       
       I did this test with an external usb drive and in this case
       the bug does'nt show up.

       #### rabeson:{root}:/var/log > fdisk -l
       
       Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
       255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
       Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
       
          Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
       /dev/sda1               1        1217     9775521   83  Linux
       /dev/sda2            1218        2434     9775552+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
       
       #### rabeson:{root}:/etc > cat fstab
       ...
       LABEL=TESTMNT           /mnt/cle1               ext3 defaults  0 0
       /dev/sda2           /mnt/sda2                   vfat defaults  0 0
       


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