[plug] fstab

[Colin Muller]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 12:07:03PM +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> After doing an upgrade from a old hard disk to a new hard disk I need to
> make changes to the /etc/fstab.  On the new disk it is located at
> /newhdd/rt/etc/fstab
> 
> In /etc/fstab on the old drive it states the following:
> LABEL=/		/
> LABEL=/boot	/boot
> 
> On the new hdd it should state the following:
> LABEL=/		/newhdd
> LABEL=/boot	/newhdd/rt/boot
> is this correct?

Replace the LABEL instructions in fstab with /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 -
it may be mounting the old drive's partitions if they have the labels
'/' and '/boot'. I don't know what sort of error message you would get
(if any) if you mount the same rive on two mount points in this way.

> I ran the tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb3
> I do not see the correct file system when I issue the command mount, it
> still shows up as ext2.  Is there a reason for this?

If it's mounting the old drives instead of the new and the old
partitions are ext2, that might explain this.

Colin