Bug 1174979

Summary: Unable to edit fstab with unused duplicat volume label
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution Reporter: Seymour Metz <smetz3>
Component: YaST2Assignee: E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None    
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Hardware: x86-64   
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Attachments: Error popup
Partition list

Description Seymour Metz 2020-08-06 23:50:09 UTC
Created attachment 840418 [details]
Error popup

I was attempting to use the Yast2 partitioner to add the nofail option to some JFC volumes. Copies of htese volumes exist on an SSD and a disk, but only the ones on the SSD have assigned mount points. In all cases but one, the partioner completed normally. For one volume (/dev/sda14) the partitioner complained about a duplicate volume label.

Note that I should be able to get around this by changing the volume label on the unmounted copy.
Comment 1 Seymour Metz 2020-08-06 23:52:34 UTC
Created attachment 840419 [details]
Partition list

Note that while Smedley appears on two partitions, only one has a mount point.
Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2020-08-07 10:48:11 UTC
The first attachment doesn't look like an error popup to me.

Anyway, please always attach complete yast logs.

To collect log files run 'save_y2logs' and attach the log file archive this command creates (usually named /tmp/y2log-SOMETHING.tar.xz).

That said, duplicate volume labels are a bad thing, independent of whether or
not they are acually used in fstab.

For one, mount by label will have unpredictable results and second, the
symlinks udev maintains in /dev/disk/by-label/ will turn messy.

If you just dd'ed the partitions around I would expect the same to hold for
the UUID.
Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2020-08-11 10:53:34 UTC
Nothing we can do, I guess. Closing bug.