Question:
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.
Answer:
What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is
it today, national "People from other distros" day?
Changing the entry in fstab should be enough, but you do need to create
the mountpoint for it.
mkdir /store in your case, but I would strongly suggest that you stick
to POSIX names and mount it to /mnt/store instead, or perhaps /media/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.
Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's
Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive
product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at
the playfield.
a partition lable and a mount point are two totally unrelated things,
almost. Almost because there is a way (I don't do it, so I'll be vague)
to use disk lables in fstab to refer to partitions instead of using
device names (e.g. /dev/hda1). This is useful on USB and SATA drives
that all show up as /dev/sd*, but the actual name for any given drive
can change depending on what other drives are connected (e.g. USB
sticks) during boot.
If this doesn't apply to you, then you can forget lables. Also, not all
filesystems allow you to relabel.
Your existing fstab (the one that mounts the drive on /xyz) points to a
mount point /xyz.
# unmount /xyz
Just change the mount point in fstab to read /store.
Rename the mount point
# mv /xyz /store
And mount it.
# mount /store
