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.
Hi Doug,
After fiddling around with sarge for some months, I installed etch a couple of weeks ago.
I've done lots of reading and I'm following this list for a while, but I'm new to debian anyway.
I have 4 partitions on my 2nd hd, swap, /tmp, /var & /xyz.
/xyz is the 4th primary partition on my 2nd hd.
When installing etch, at some point partman asked for a mount point for that partition and I entered /xyz.
I use this xyz partition only to store some .iso's and other large files, so I want rename/relabel it to /store. If I do mkdir /store, that would create the dir/mount point on my 1st hd where / is located (correct?). Thus the question is: how to change /xyz to /store on my 2nd hd, so I can do eg. something like this:
mv ~/*.iso /store
so it moves *.iso from ~ on my 1st hd to /store on my 2nd hd.
Greetings, Manon.
@ Joe Heart
> What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search.
I fould e2label in /sbin, read the man and tried to use it.
> What is it today, national "People from other distros" day?
Huh? Sounds like a warm 'welcome to debian' to me.
I guess you don't have the monopoly of wisdom too.
BTW: it's SHE, not he.
Anyway, greetings to you too, Manon.