On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:57:43AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: [..snip..] > All I can think of is that at some point someone accidentally typed > the command blkid /dev/.static/dev/sda7 while running as root, and > this errant got stuck in your /etc/blkid.tab file. I see (and will > fix) the bug which causes blkid to not fix this problem automatically, > but this is something which I've never seen show up in peoples > /etc/blkid.tab files in the normal course of events. This is not the case. I never used the blkid command before today. After installing the laptop (that was probably sarge back then) - I switch to labeled mounts by using tune2fs and changing the fstab to LABEL=...
No blkid was ever involved here. > If you run the command the command "blkid -g" as root the errant > /dev/.static entry will go away. "cp /dev/null /etc/blkid.tab" will > also make the problem go away, and I haven't been able to find a way > to make blkid put those names into /etc/blkid.tab unless forced via > explicit human intervention. Actually "blkid -g" is what I did to get this fixed but we should automate this in a way. Maybe by checking of blkid.tab has .static/ - if so run blkid -g or something similar. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
