Incoming from Shawn: > I just noticed problem with one of my servers. When I restart it, the /home > partition isn't getting mounted properly. I've checked my fstab (see below), > but am not sure why this is happening. > > Here's my fstab file: > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 > /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0 > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hda4 /home reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0
Try adding "auto" here ---------------------------------^ ? My entry (entries) for auto-mounted filesystems is as so: /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2 It's likely in "defaults" that makes it mount automatically. man mount. > #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 Why is that commented out? It's not automatically mounted. > I can manually mount the partition after reboot (mount /dev/hda4 /home), so I If it's in /etc/fstab, you can just "mount /home". mount will consult fstab to find out where to mount it. > don't think it's a problem with the partitions per se. /boot and / both get How does /boot get mounted automatically when you have noauto there? Did you know that you don't have to mount /boot? :-) At least I don't. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
