----- 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 -- Cordialement, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------