ext3 file system

[Carl Johnson]

"Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> writes:

> Hi :)
>
> is it possible to mount Linux ext3 file systems with fstab by label?
> Before I run mount -a /mnt/dump had the same permissions, owner and
> group as /mnt/archlinux has got. Is it possible to keep this? Both are
> Linux  ext3 fs. Mounting without a label does work.
>
> root at freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # cat /etc/fstab
> # Device		Mountpoint	FStype	Options		Dump Pass
> /dev/ad4s1b		none		swap	sw		0	0
> /dev/ad4s1a		/		ufs	rw		1	1
> /dev/ad4s1e		/tmp		ufs	rw		2	2
> /dev/ad4s1f		/usr		ufs	rw		2	2
> /dev/ad4s1d		/var		ufs	rw		2	2
> /dev/acd0		/cdrom		cd9660	ro,noauto	0	0
> #proc                   /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
> /dev/ada0s8             /mnt/dump       ext2fs  rw              0       0
> #/dev/label/dump         /mnt/dump       ext2fs  rw              0       0
> #/dev/label/archlinux    /mnt/archlinux  ext2fs  rw              0       0
>
> root at freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt
> total 6
> drwxr-xr-x  2 rocketmouse  wheel   512 Jan 20 20:51 archlinux
> drwxrwxrwx  2 root         wheel  4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump
> root at freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l / | grep mnt
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel      512 Jan 20 20:51 mnt
>
> I still search the Internet, but had bad luck until now.
>
> If I run 'gpart show -l' I can't see what /dev archlinux is, it
> doesn't show Linux labels, so I need to restart and boot Linux to see
> at what  position it is, to figure out what /dev/ada*s* archlinux is.

You should be able to see any labels the kernel knows about with 'glabel 
status', but my experience is that not all labels show up.  You can
check ext2/3 labels with e2label from the e2fsprogs port/package.  My
experience is that labels in /etc/fstab work fine, but they may or may
not be visible in /dev or with glabel if they are not in fstab.

-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org