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Spaz17 n00b
Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 41 Location: /home/spaz
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: fstab issue |
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i cant get /backup or /boot to mount
--i cant access them after booting
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/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noauto,noatime 0 1
/dev/hda4 /backup ext3 noauto,noatime 0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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ectospasm l33t
Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 711 Location: Mobile, AL, USA
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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First, why do you have / with the "noauto" option? That option is for filesystems that you do not want to be mounted at boot. / needs to be mounted at boot.
Only thing I can think of for not being able to mount /boot or /backup is that you are not the superuser when trying to mount them. Could you give us the exact error message that you get when you try to mount them?
Also, some of your dump and fsck options (trailing numbers at the end of each /etc/fstab line) are a little screwy, but that shouldn't affect your ability to mount them. I'd check the fstab man page to set those properly. _________________ Join the adopt an unanswered post initiative today
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GenKiller n00b
Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 66 Location: United States of America
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Are you trying to mount them as root?
If you want a user to be able to mount/unmount the partitions you need to specify 'user' as an option in fstab.
For example:
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Spaz17 n00b
Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 41 Location: /home/spaz
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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to clearify:
its not that _im_ trying to mount them, its that i want the system to at boot
its the 5th and 6th fields --the fs_freq and fs_passno that really confuse me
the man entry mentions dumping, and i am clueless
so, basically, im asking what the 5th and 6th fields should be |
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ectospasm l33t
Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 711 Location: Mobile, AL, USA
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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To mount /boot and /backup at boot time, just remove the "noauto" option. The dump command is simply a backup utility IIRC, if you don't intend to use it don't worry about it. I have every dump/pass option set to 0 0 in my /etc/fstab, but you might want to have it differently. 0 0 just means those filesystems will get skipped for dump and fsck. I'm not advocating this setup, it's just the setup I use. _________________ Join the adopt an unanswered post initiative today
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