[TriLUG] LABEL collision when mounting usb disks

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I'm running kernel 2.4.28 (ie no udev). I have several
external disks with a LABEL in each partition. This saves me 
from looking for the (possibly different) device name each 
time I plug them in. Instead I have an entry in /etc/fstab 
and I can just run `mount LABEL_name`.

However now that I'm using labels to mount (rather than 
device names), when I have an external usb drive with no 
LABEL in the partitions and I do

`fsck /dev/device_name`

I get

error LABEL not found on disk (or something like that)

If I then comment out the LABEL lines in /etc/fstab I can 
run the fsck command OK.

What should I do to be able to mount disks that have a LABEL 
and fsck disks without LABELs?

Thanks Joe

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