d/rh7-mount

Subject: [RHBA-2000:074-02] mount and e2fsprogs fail when using 16 character labels
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 16:37 -0400
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis:          mount and e2fsprogs fail when using 16 character labels
Advisory ID:       RHBA-2000:074-02
Issue date:        2000-10-05
Updated on:        2000-10-06
Product:           Red Hat Linux
Keywords:          mount 16 labels e2fsprogs
Cross references:  N/A
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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.

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

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
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ce12b61bdf8fbabd020a162678322366  7.0/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.18-16.src.rpm
ce9a54288c53521a2a39e9410d976842  7.0/SRPMS/mount-2.10m-6.src.rpm
28588210c5e0ace89542cd1e33a17ebb  7.0/i386/e2fsprogs-1.18-16.i386.rpm
19eadca2284e84097a0bc309502d9075  7.0/i386/mount-2.10m-6.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security.  Our key
is available at:
    http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

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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