[Gllug] Yet more problems with an external disk drive

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:33:12PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 03:48:20PM +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> > I use fstab to define the permissions on an external drive, in order to
> > be able to use the drive to store backups.
> > 
> > In the past, the drive has been identified as both device sdb1 and sdf1
> > (though not, of course, simultaneously), and so I've provided entries
> > in fstab for both these, and it's worked so far. Well at least until
> > yesterday.
> 
> Is the drive ext2/3 formatted?  If so you should be able to label it
> while it is mounted ('e2label /dev/sdd1 backup') then use the label in
> the fstab:
> 
> LABEL=backup  /mnt/backup    ext3    defaults        1 2
> 
> According to the fstab manpage XFS also supports these sorts of
> labels, but AFAIK not things like FAT.

Actaully FAT can do labels - the '-n volume-name' flag to mkdosfs, or
the  'dosfslabel /dev/blah volume-name'  command to change an existing
filesystem

Regards,
Dan.
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