On Wednesday 14 May 2014 20:29:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I have this weird problem where a filesystem (Ext4) refuses to mount > automatically after something like a power loss or forced shutdown. > > The fstab entry for it is: > > LABEL=Data /mnt/Data ext4 defaults,relatime,exec 0 2 > > During boot, this is what OpenRC tells me: > > Root: clean, 805088/6553600 files, 9129899/26214400 blocks > Data: recovering journal > Data: clean, 364344/61546496 files, 137312260/246156800 blocks [ ok ] > * Mounting local filesystems ... [ ok ] > * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [ ok ] > * Remounting filesystems ... [ ok ] > * Updating /etc/mtab ... [ ok ]
It doesn't show that it failed to mount / What does syslog show? > If I reboot the system again, then all works fine and the FS is mounted > automatically. So this is a one-time thingy, happening only on the first > boot after an unclean power-off. > > It would seem that I've stumbled across an OpenRC bug? There's no errors > anywhere to be seem. According to the log output above, everything > should be fine. I suspect that the "recovering journal" step is what > causes this, but I don't know why. > > Anyone else encountered this? I don't know why your system does this. I have had a few forced shutdowns with root on ext4 and the system mounts / after it recovers and cleans messed up inodes. However this is how fstab looks in my case: /dev/sda7 / ext4 noatime 0 1 Could your problem be related to your relatime mount option? -- Regards, Mick
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