Bug#576537: Incorrect labels generated in /etc/fstab during PATA conversion

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:12:48PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: linux-base
> Version: 2.6.32-10
> Severity: normal
> 
> The conversion on my Thinkpad X31 seems to have generated incorrect
> labels, which lead to the home partition not being mounted automatically:
> 
> This is the /etc/fstab which was generated:
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> LABEL=\x2f       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/hda6       /home           ext3    defaults,noatime 0       2
> LABEL=\x2fhome       /home           ext3    defaults,noatime 0       2
> # /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> UUID=0603958c-bb68-46df-940b-c562b9fdb4aa       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/sda        /stick          vfat    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> The labels itself seem correct:
> 
> root@galadriel:~# e2label /dev/sda1
> /
> root@galadriel:~# e2label /dev/sda6
> /home
> root@galadriel:~#
> 
> I have no idea where "\x2f" instead of "/" is coming from?
> 
> Cheers,
>         Moritz

this is how udev encodes / in sysfs as it is not a new dir and
kind of special.

afair initramfs-tools does the conversion from / to \x2f,
so it should not be necessary to use that.

anyway newer linux-base should convert you over to UUID and not LABEL.
don't know thus if this bug still applies.