[mdlug] More External Drive Problems

[Elisa Gomez]

I have an amazing ability to exponentially cause more
problems for myself. This occurred because I think I
edited a some file to permanently name my drive (I
named it 'franz') instead of having it rename itself a
different thing each time it gets remounted. Someone
on this list gave directions on how to do this, but
for the life of me I cannot remember what file I
edited.

When I shut down, unplug my laptop and start it back
up with the drive physically disconnected, this is
what happens during start-up:

Activing swap... [OK]
Checking root file system...
fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
/dev/sda2: clean, 210976/2093056 files,
1508440/4182924 blocks [OK]

Checking file systems...
fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
fsck.ext2: Unable to resolve 'LABEL="franz"'
fsck died with exit status 8 [fail]

*File system check failed
A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that
location is writeable.
Please repair the file system manually.
*A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and resume system
boot.
bash: no job control in this shell
bash: groups: command not found
bash: lesspipe: command not found
bash: Command: command not found
bash: The: command not found
bash: dircolors: command not found
bash: Command: command not found
bash: The: command not found
root at trotsky:~#  *Stopping the Firestarter firewall...


And then it would freeze up and pressing ctrl-d did
nothing.

I just recreated this again because I wanted to paste
in the log results for everyone and this time it did
continue with start-up after I pressed ctrl-d a couple
of times. However, I'd prefer to fix it somehow so
that it just checks to see if the drive is connected
and if it's not, it carries on normally without
breaking fsck. This is the log file:

Log of fsck -C -R -A -a 
Wed Feb  6 01:27:15 2008

fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
fsck.ext2: Unable to resolve 'LABEL="franz"'

fsck died with exit status 8

Wed Feb  6 01:27:15 2008
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Any ideas? I really wish I could remember what file I
added an entry to about the external drive.

~Elisa


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