[linux-lvm] [Fwd: ext2 label support for LVM in mount and e2fsck]

Helps when the idiot remembers to include the link huh?

http://arioch.unomaha.edu/~kbohling/lvm_label_patches/

Kirby

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: ext2 label support for LVM in mount and e2fsck
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:59:06 -0600
From: "Kirby C. Bohling" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

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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