Re: Relabel partition didn't work

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote:
> Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd.
> It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when installing
> etch).
> I tried this:
> 
> e2label /dev/hdb4
> xyz
> e2label /dev/hdb4 store
> e2label /dev/hdb4
> store
> So seemingly the label has changed.
> I edited /etc/fstab accordingly:
> 
> changing  /dev/hdb4       /xyz            ext3    defaults        0       2
>           to  /dev/hdb4       /store         ext3    defaults
> 0       2
> 
> Then I rebooted, only to find this message popping up during boot time:
> 
>   mount: mount point /store does not exist
> 
> There was no further error during boot time and kde was up and running.
> Then I'd reset everything and could mount and access /xyz as before.
> 
> What did I do wrong and how do I change /xyz to /store?

You're confusing disk lables with mount points.  Your fstab doesn't have
disklables in it.  You told mount to mount /dev/hdb4 on /store, so it
looks for the directory /store, which doesn't exist.

So backup:

What are you trying to do?

Doug.