fsck doesn't like LABEL= in fstab

[Giles Orr]

What with my hard drive adventures recently, I decided it was time to
muck with my /etc/fstab some so that USB devices would start showing
up at coherent mount points.  I thought the right method would be
using "UUID=..." statements in fstab, but then I found "LABEL=..."
which seemed more practical.  However, I've had the same issue with
both: on boot, fsck tries to check the UUID or LABEL devices (which
are generally not connected), despite "noauto" params, and then stalls
the boot process suggesting I go fix it.  Here's the
/var/log/fsck/checkfs :

Log of fsck -C -V -R -A -a
Mon Oct  8 17:04:22 2007

fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
Checking all file systems.
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /fc] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda1
/: clean, 178437/1310720 files, 932982/2620595 blocks
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /mnt/vantec1] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 LABEL=Vantec01
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=Vantec01'
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /mnt/vantec2] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 LABEL=Vantec02
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=Vantec02'
fsck died with exit status 8

The corresponding lines in /etc/fstab :

/dev/hda1       /fc             ext3    defaults,noauto  0       2
LABEL=Vantec01 /mnt/vantec1 ext3 user,noauto 0 2
LABEL=Vantec02 /mnt/vantec2 ext3 user,noauto 0 2

So what's the problem here?  If I use "/dev/sda1" instead of
"LABEL=Vantec01" fsck ignores the statement because it says "noauto"
(see below) but change it to "LABEL=..." or "UUID=..." and I have a
fairly nasty issue.  Although writing this did make me notice that /fc
is "noauto" and gets checked.  But I have other lines:

/dev/sda1       /mnt/usba      auto    user,noauto,noatime      0      0
/dev/sdb1       /mnt/usbb      auto    user,noauto,noatime      0      0

Which are ignored.  I'm a bit confused.

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Giles
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