Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:22 -0400
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHBA-2000:074-04] mount and e2fsprogs fail when using 16
character labels
Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis: mount and e2fsprogs fail when using 16 character labels
Advisory ID: RHBA-2000:074-04
Issue date: 2000-10-05
Updated on: 2000-10-13
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: mount 16 labels e2fsprogs
Cross references: N/A
1. Topic:
Red Hat Linux 7.0 uses volume labels instead of device names by
default in /etc/fstab. However, mount cannot deal with labels equal
to 16 characters, making a system which defines long labels
unbootable.
2000-10-09: md5sums corrected.
2000-10-13: missing e2fsprogs-devel packages included.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 7.0 – i386
3. Problem description:
In Red Hat Linux 7.0, /etc/fstab uses ext2 volume labels instead
of device names for defining mountpoints. For example, a line such
as:
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
is written to mount the root filesystem.
However, the mount command, as well as other ext2 commands,
don’t handle labels that are exactly 16 characters long. They
properly deal with labels 15 characters and less.
If your /etc/fstab contained long volume labels, your system
would be unbootable, as mount would fail on these partitions. This
release fixes all known problems with volume labels.
4. Solution:
For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filename]
where filename is the name of the RPM.
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):
N/A
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Linux 7.0:
i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/mount-2.10m-6.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/e2fsprogs-1.18-16.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/e2fsprogs-devel-1.18-16.i386.rpm
sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/mount-2.10m-6.src.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.18-16.src.rpm
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
20c38fd044aa1a5d88d64cc81fe18416 7.0/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.18-16.src.rpm 3ed1c022940f6e5d567030bf023dec2f 7.0/SRPMS/mount-2.10m-6.src.rpm be424fec55039ab0c9eb8804b6e1ccc4 7.0/i386/e2fsprogs-1.18-16.i386.rpm def64f4a8d9468459e828884e614f692 7.0/i386/e2fsprogs-devel-1.18-16.i386.rpm d5248a4bf4ba6029f3989af2d3639d27 7.0/i386/mount-2.10m-6.i386.rpm
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You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig <filename>
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command:
rpm –checksig –nogpg <filename>
8. References:
N/A
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