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carl verbiest
Asked: 2017-02-16 02:13:17 +0800 CST

How to make sure the same partition is used as mount point?

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Mounts are, sometimes, swapped at boot /usr2 becomes /tmp and /tmp becomes /usr2. This causes disaster because /tmp cleanup cron entries start acting on the /usr2 mount.

/etc/fstab contents

/dev/mapper/rhel-root   /                       xfs     defaults        0 0
UUID=****************** /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rhel-swap   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sdb1       /data   ext4    data=ordered,relatime   0       0
/dev/sdd1       /usr2   ext4    defaults        0       0
/dev/sdc1       /tmp    ext4    defaults        0       0

How can I prevent the system from booting or from mounting the drives if this occurs? I'm trying to add some kind of safeguard in case the root issue occurs.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have two options:

    1. Since you're using an EXT filesystem you can label the partition and use the LABEL option in your fstab.
      e2label /dev/sdb1 /data and use the label /data rather than the partition to get consistent mounts: LABEL=/data /data ext4 data=ordered,relatime 0 0

    2. Your current /etc/fstab already includes an example of it, but you also can mount partitions, volumes and disks by their unique UUID. Use blkid to get the UUID's and include them in /etc/fstab i.e. something like:
      UUID=c2ba7d33-1a1f /data ext4 data=ordered,relatime 0 0

    The second option is more powerful as it works for a much larger range of file-systems and devices where e2label only works for EXT filesytems.

    You can display blkid UUID in slightly more userfriendly format with lsblk --fs

    # lsblk --fs
NAME                    FSTYPE      LABEL UUID                                   MOUNTPOINT
vda
├─vda1                  ext3              b82742bc-32d3-47bb-b542-1cfa25b92dd1   /boot
├─vda2                  swap              c2ba7d33-1a1f-4c73-b7d3-31eae965c136   [SWAP]
└─vda3                  LVM2_member       H6C5Kf-jEiA-VrxJ-XnNH-T9Zd-lUDE-NbC72E
  ├─myvg-rootvol (dm-0) ext4              b948ff9c-3a66-45e8-8099-cc529a22c547   /
  └─myvg-crypto (dm-1)  crypto_LUKS       f4e7400c-aa15-44fc-b02e-1ce6ca6c04db
    └─crypto (dm-2)     ext4              3dfa7a40-80ef-4ae6-84c5-e00f55a76b3d   /crypto
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