[mythtv-users] LABEL=/video does not exist

Brian Donaldson brian.donaldson at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 00:28:07 UTC 2006


Jason,

That solved the problem.  Thank you very much for the detailed
instructions.  I really appreciate it.

Brian


On 1/2/06, Jason W. <jason_wilk at stircrazy.net> wrote:
>
> Brian Donaldson wrote:
> > I'm running FC4 w/0.18.1 installing using Jarod's instructions.  I
> > configured my partitions during setup as described in the
> > instructions.  I created a /video xfs partition with the remaining
> > space on the drive (~190GB).  However, the system is showing the
> > /video directory to only have about a 7.5GB capacity instead of the
> > 190GB.  I'm getting this error during boot-up:
> >
> > mount: special device LABEL=/video does not exist
> >
> >
> > However, I still seem to be able to access /video.  It's just smaller
> > than it should be.  Here is my fstab:
> >
> > [root at localhost mythtv]# cat /etc/fstab
> > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults
> > 1 1
> > LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
> > 1 2 /dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts
> > gid=5,mode=620  0 0 /dev/shm                /dev/shm
> > tmpfs   defaults        0 0 /dev/proc               /proc
> > proc    defaults        0 0 /dev/sys                /sys
> > sysfs   defaults        0 0
> > LABEL=/video            /video                  xfs     defaults
> > 1 2
> > 10.10.10.8:/media       /mnt/media              nfs
> > rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0 0
> > LABEL=AhD$AdD$A   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hdc                /media/cdrom            auto
> > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brian
>
> bDid you change the filesystem type after the initial build? I believe
> that
> label is an ext2/3 thing ('man e2label' for more info). Here's all you
> need
> to do to fix it.
>
> 1) 'mv /video /video.bak'
> -move the /video folder someplace else so that you can access the current
> contents once you have properly mounted your partition.
> 2) 'mkdir /video'
> -create a new mountpoint
> 3) 'fdisk -l' to find the large partition that you created.
> -it should be easy to spot.
> 4) edit /etc/fstab and replace "LABEL=/video" with the actual partition
> that
> you want to mount (probably either "/dev/hda3" or "/dev/hda5"
> 5) 'mount -a'
> -mount all of the partitions listed in /etc/fstab
> 6) 'mount'
> -is it mounted? If yes, then 7
> 7) 'df -h'
> -is it as big as you expect it to be? If yes, then 8
> 8) 'mv /video.bak/* /video/'
> -move everything that used to be in that directory to the new directory
> 9) 'rmdir /video.bak'
> -get rid of the old dir
>
>
>
>
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