Re: Mount problem

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0200, Asuka Langley wrote:
> I have a big problem.. to be honest this problem belongs to a friend of
> mine, just he can't speak english, and he is blind, so it's a bit difficult.
> So..the problem
> 
> He have this line in his fstab:
> /dev/sdb1 /media/disk2 ext3 auto,users 0 0
> 
> This was working for he .. for few weeks. But after that weeks, the
> directory became empty after a reboot. Then, he tried to remount it, but it
> says: /dev/sdb

did the device get renamed?  Check /var/log/syslog to see what device
name gets assigned to the device.  Consider adding a lable to the
filesystem on the device and mounting with the LABEL option.

Doug.