[mdlug] Mounting problems

[Joe Doehler]

At 03:51 AM 10/23/2009, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
>Joe Doehler wrote:
> > I am trying to migrate to my new box that runs Fedora 10. My old box
> > runs an older version of RedHat.
>
>How old? Is this box still running? If can you post a copy of the
>/etc/fstab file so we can see what options it was using during normal
>mounting.

This old box currently runs RedHat 7.2. It is my mail/web server: 
that where this e-mail is coming from. Everything in it still works 
fine, surprisingly: its hard drive, a cheap Seagate, has been running 
over 10 years, 24/7 - I am living on borrowed time. So I figure it's 
time to move to a better box. I thought that the quickest way to 
transfer files to the new box would be to physically move the hard 
drive and pick stuff off it as I needed it. The drive is back in the 
old box and I am transferring files via my network, but I'd like to 
know what is happening.

Here's the relevant part of fstab:

LABEL=/       /   ext3   defaults    1 1

Looking at it now, the LABEL could be the problem. This may be 
incompatible with the way Fedora 10 identifies partitions.


>Do you also get the "unsupported optional features" message when you try
>   mount -t ext3 ... ?

Yes.

Joe.