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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 26 May 2007 15:32:00 +0200
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Hi Troy,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
[...]
> 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
[...]
> If someone could try this on a real RHEL4 machine I would appreciate it.  If

No surprise here: mount on RHEL4.5 is broken in this way.

> they find that it's their bug, if they would file a bugzilla report, that 
> would be even greater.

#241477

There's an RPM with a simple fix for this in 
http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL4/

Cheers,
 	Stephan


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Stephan Wiesand
   DESY - DV -
   Platanenallee 6
   15738 Zeuthen, Germany

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