[linux-lvm] ext2 label support for LVM in mount and e2fsck

[linux-lvm] ext2 label support for LVM in mount and e2fsck

[Kirby C. Bohling]

LVM list,

	I just got RH 7.2.  I downloaded all the stuff to make LVM work correctly 
on it.  I was unpleasently surprised to find that ext2 filesystem labels 
don't work correctly.  That is, you can say this in the fstab:

LABEL=/usr 
/usr 
ext2 
defaults 
1 
1

	If the label is on any partition listed in /proc/partitions, however it 
doesn't work if the label is on a logical volume.

	Well I had the source, and I had a problem.  Here is a link to the 
patches to mount and e2fsck to make them go.  I have sent them into the 
respective maintainers, the mount maintainer happily took one, I haven't 
heard from the e2fsck maintainer yet.  So hopefully they should be in a 
future version.  Thought possibly somebody else out there might 
appreciate them.

	Disclaimer:  these were only tested on one machine with one LVM setup. 
If you screw up your mount or fsck utilities you will need a boot/rescue 
disk handy.  Patched againsted RH 7.2 source, but should work fine 
against stock source.

		Kirby
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