mount and e2fsprogs fail when using 16 character labels

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.

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.

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

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