Re: fstab

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, at 11:06 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Hello, > > With ext4 filesystems, I used to set > > ext4noauto,errors=remount-ro1 2 > > in the fstab. > > With btrfs FS > it does not like the option errors=remount-ro That is an ext

Re: fstab

2024-06-01 Thread Roger Heflin
e via users wrote: > > Hello, > > With ext4 filesystems, I used to set > > ext4noauto,errors=remount-ro 1 2 > > in the fstab. > > With btrfs FS > it does not like the option errors=remount-ro > mount: /mnt/backup_2: wrong fs type, bad option, bad sup

fstab

2024-06-01 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Hello, With ext4 filesystems, I used to set ext4noauto,errors=remount-ro1 2 in the fstab. With btrfs FS it does not like the option errors=remount-ro mount: /mnt/backup_2: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc5, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

Re: (...) Add partition in fstab

2024-05-24 Thread soles.g
El 23/5/24 a las 21:28, Mike Wright escribió: (...) The other thing I don't understand It's what I have to write in the fstab to tell you that when you start... Also start a partition: /sda7... which is not /home... If you could tell me that I have to write with the mount command t

Re: Gui for fstab?

2023-07-07 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 12:39 AM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > HI All, > > Is there a GUI for settin up a new > drive in fstab? Or do we still need to > use to old one (vi)? > Gnome Disk Utility, aka Disks. Select a storage device a

Re: Gui for fstab?

2023-07-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 6:16 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2023-07-06 at 20:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: HI All, Is there a GUI for settin up a new drive in fstab? Or do we still need to use to old one (vi)? IMHO a GUI would be overkill. It's a text file wi

Re: Gui for fstab?

2023-07-07 Thread Roger Heflin
Plus the gui would be useless unless it had all of the knowledge of all types of fses and what options were valid. And coding that into a fstab gui program correctly seems like a massive undertaking with all of the details. so it would likely be a mess. I saw a gui to manage /etc/groups years

Re: Gui for fstab?

2023-07-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2023-07-06 at 20:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > HI All, > > Is there a GUI for settin up a new > drive in fstab?  Or do we still need to > use to old one (vi)? IMHO a GUI would be overkill. It's a text file with a clear structure. Besides, you sometimes

Re: Gui for fstab?

2023-07-06 Thread Felix Miata
ToddAndMargo composed on 2023-07-06 20:39 (UTC-0700): > Is there a GUI for settin up a new > drive in fstab? Or do we still need to > use to old one (vi)? Any plain text editor with superuser permission can edit /etc/fstab, including adding new entries. -- Evolution as taught in publi

Gui for fstab?

2023-07-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
HI All, Is there a GUI for settin up a new drive in fstab? Or do we still need to use to old one (vi)? Many thanks, -T -- ~~~ Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be re

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-06-23 Thread Dorian ROSSE
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Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-06-21 Thread Dorian ROSSE
ROSSE. From: Dorian ROSSE Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 11:50:38 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: RE: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star Hello ever

RE: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-06-20 Thread Dorian ROSSE
__ De : Dorian ROSSE Envoyé : lundi 5 juin 2023 17:39 À : Community support for Fedora users Objet : Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star Dear Eyal, After have tried mount without option

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-06-05 Thread Dorian ROSSE
users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star Hi Dorian, On 05/06/2023 18.39, Dorian ROSSE wrote: > Hello everybody and the team fedora, > >

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-06-05 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
understand what you are saying. Also you may want to give a shorter subject. However the above three attempts at mounting are incorrect. 'mount -a' asks to mount everything in /etc/fstab and does not expect the arguments you give. 'mount -o' requires an option, f

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-06-05 Thread Dorian ROSSE
ubject: Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star Hello everybody and the team fedora, Although i can't find the dependancies with dnf or yum the installer fedora find many skeleton o

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-06-02 Thread Dorian ROSSE
Rosse. From: Dorian ROSSE Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 1:40:17 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star Hello everybody and the

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-30 Thread Dorian ROSSE
_ From: Dorian ROSSE Sent: Monday, May 29, 2023 11:38:43 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star Hello everybody and the team fedo

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-29 Thread Dorian ROSSE
this will be repaire after few time Regards. Dorian Rosse. From: Dorian ROSSE Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 1:19:25 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-26 Thread Dorian ROSSE
n addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star I don't care about your story so i am here for the IT Dorian Rosse. From: John Pilkington Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 10:40:08 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-21 Thread Dorian ROSSE
I don't care about your story so i am here for the IT Dorian Rosse. From: John Pilkington Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 10:40:08 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has receiv

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/05/2023 20:49, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/18/23 05:21, Dorian ROSSE wrote: Hello everybody and the team fedora, blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart so it has losen a lot of part and luckily locate works without type the button

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-18 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/18/23 05:21, Dorian ROSSE wrote: Hello everybody and the team fedora, blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart so it has losen a lot of part and luckily locate works without type the button star finally thanks you in advance to

Re: blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-18 Thread Felix Miata
Dorian ROSSE composed on 2023-05-18 12:21 (UTC): > blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received > an update not smart so it has losen a lot of part and luckily locate works > without type the button star finally thanks you in advance to repair whole, Pl

blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart and luckily locate works with type the button star

2023-05-18 Thread Dorian ROSSE
Hello everybody and the team fedora, blkid fully broken too chroot has losen sense in addition fstab has received an update not smart so it has losen a lot of part and luckily locate works without type the button star finally thanks you in advance to repair whole, Have a nice week, Regards

Re: many errors behind mount and the file fstab

2023-05-15 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:32 AM Dorian ROSSE wrote: > sudo mount -o /dev/sda4 /boot/dos_4 > mount: /boot/dos_4: impossible de trouver UUID=9a71295a-04. First, "-o" requires options, so the command is not valid. Second, "impossible de trouver" appears to be "can't find", which would suggest there

many errors behind mount and the file fstab

2023-05-15 Thread Dorian ROSSE
hello everybody and the team fedora, i happen many errors for mount many part although this step for restore few systems naturally i have use clonezilla instead a software by acronis so the parts fedora are keep luckily thus i attach in attachment the file fstab and i paste below many errors

Re: systemd tmp.mount vs. just /etc/fstab

2023-02-23 Thread Robert Nichols
systemd override or else put a line in /etc/fstab just as in the days before systemd, and the systemd unit will respect the size option there. But, that line in /etc/fstab can do the job on its own, so what's the point of enabling the tmp.mount unit? Putting a line in /etc/fstab is a funct

Re: systemd tmp.mount vs. just /etc/fstab

2023-02-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
a > line in /etc/fstab just as in the days before systemd, and the systemd unit > will respect the size option there. > > But, that line in /etc/fstab can do the job on its own, so what's the point > of enabling the tmp.mount unit? Putting a line in /etc/fstab is a fun

systemd tmp.mount vs. just /etc/fstab

2023-02-23 Thread Robert Nichols
If I want to use a tmpfs for /tmp, I can just enable the systemd tmp.mount unit and get the default size limit of 1/2 of memory. If I want to reduce that limit, I either have to fiddle with a systemd override or else put a line in /etc/fstab just as in the days before systemd, and the systemd

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-09-05 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 11:06 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > For every person who reports a problem like this there are dozens if not > hundreds > who never report the problem. Many will discover outdated or incorrect > advice from the internet. > Some will decide that linux doesn't work and

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-09-05 Thread George N. White III
hols > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I have added a line to /etc/fstab: > >>>> /dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 > >>>> > >>>> I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" > >>>>

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-09-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 9/3/22 10:21 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/20/22 6:23 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/20/22 4:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 20 Aug 2022, at 19:16, Robert Nichols wrote: I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs   /mnt/imgs   ext4  noauto,noexec,nodev  0 0 I have run

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-09-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 9/3/22 21:21, Robert Nichols wrote: This is getting annoying. If you haven't already, open a Bugzilla against it. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-09-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 8/20/22 6:23 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/20/22 4:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 20 Aug 2022, at 19:16, Robert Nichols wrote: I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs   /mnt/imgs   ext4  noauto,noexec,nodev  0 0 I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" After a r

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-08-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 8/20/22 4:56 PM, Barry wrote: On 20 Aug 2022, at 19:16, Robert Nichols wrote: I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" After a reboot, the command "mount /mnt/imgs&quo

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-08-20 Thread Barry
> On 20 Aug 2022, at 19:16, Robert Nichols wrote: > > I have added a line to /etc/fstab: > /dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 > > I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" > > After a reboot, the command "mount /mnt/imgs

fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-08-20 Thread Robert Nichols
I have added a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 I have run "systemctl daemon-reload" After a reboot, the command "mount /mnt/imgs" still returns the message: Mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, bu

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/6/21 11:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-06-21 4:29 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/6/21 02:22, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:44, Stephen Morris wrote: My system has been upgraded from versions without ZRAM.  That is the reason my system has a defined swap partition on disk. I don

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-06-21 4:29 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/6/21 02:22, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:44, Stephen Morris wrote: My system has been upgraded from versions without ZRAM.  That is the reason my system has a defined swap partition on disk. I don't see the connection between Video Me

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
on in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case, and 8GB swap partition in /dev/zram0. Does this mean that if I create a swap partition of a bigger size and specify it in fstab it will be ignored? Ignored?  No.  But not primary.  e.g. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ swapon NAME   TYPE   SIZE USED PRIO

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Chris Murphy
hirley wrote: > >>> One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable > >>> swap-on-zram: > >>>touch /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf > >>> and define a swap partition in fstab. > >> > >> Why? > > I don't se

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:51 AM Barry Scott wrote: > > The SSDs are a lot slower than compressing a page into RAM. > > There was extensive discussion on the Fedora Devel list when this change was > proposed. > > Personally I was convinced that this change is an improvement for any system > that

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
-generator.conf and define a swap partition in fstab. Why? I don't see how that's an answer to why you would disable zram. Especially when your later reply shows that you're not really even using the disk swap anyway. ___ users mailin

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Barry Scott
erver is running on Raid-1 SSDs with 64GB of RAM > > Bill > > On 6/21/2021 3:41 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 6/20/21 7:25 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: >>> One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable swap-on-zram: >>>touch /etc/systemd/zram-

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Bill Shirley
[0 07:20:34 root@yoda33 ~]$ swapon NAME  TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/sdc1 partition  64G 9.7M  300 /dev/sdd1 partition  64G 9.4M  300 [0 03:06:33 root@yoda33 ~]$ uptime  03:08:30 up 23 days, 18:33,  2 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 On 6/21/2021 4:18 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 21/06/2021 1

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 21/06/2021 16:05, Bill Shirley wrote: The server is running on Raid-1 SSDs with 64GB of RAM I suppose the follow-up question would be are you seeing the swap partition actually being used? Does "swapon" show it has been used? -- Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the th

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Bill Shirley
fstab. Why? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/20/21 7:25 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable swap-on-zram:   touch /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf and define a swap partition in fstab. Why? ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-20 Thread Bill Shirley
One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable swap-on-zram:   touch /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf and define a swap partition in fstab. Bill On 6/19/2021 12:45 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm,

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 19/06/2021 21:44, Stephen Morris wrote: On 19/6/21 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 12:45, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/6/21 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 12:45, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case, and 8GB swap partition in /dev/

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 19/06/2021 12:45, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case, and 8GB swap partition in /dev/zram0. Does this mean that if I create a

No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-18 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case, and 8GB swap partition in /dev/zram0. Does this mean that if I create a swap partition of a bigger size and specify

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2019-08-18 at 08:06 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 17Aug2019 12:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 09:38 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > Really, all you need to do is to remove the /var fstab entry, umount > > > the > >

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17Aug2019 12:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 09:38 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: Really, all you need to do is to remove the /var fstab entry, umount the existing /var mount, rsync /newvar BACK INTO the stub /var mountpoint which is there, scrub /newvar. /var c

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 17:59 +0200, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:01:01 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I did finally solve it following the suggestion from > > francis.montag...@inria.fr (adding rd.break=pre-pivot to the boot line, > > then remounting /sy

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-17 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:01:01 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I did finally solve it following the suggestion from > francis.montag...@inria.fr (adding rd.break=pre-pivot to the boot line, > then remounting /sysroot etc.) Correction: that was a suggestion of Tony Nelson (thanks for this t

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
> /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as /var on > > reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using /var-tst > > for testing): > > > > /newvar /var-tstext4 > > loop0

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
ing an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using /var-tst for testing): /newvar /var-tstext4loop 0 0 That isn't what loop is for. loop is for associating a file with a device. What you want is "bind", not "loop

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:11:09 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > That was the first thing I tried, but I can't rename /newvar to /var as > > /var is "in use" and of course can't be unmounted. > > That sort of thing is what live media wa

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails - SOLVED

2019-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
gt; > > > Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename > > `/newvar` to > > > > `/var` and edit fstab. > > > I may have to do that as /var is too central to booting even in > > single- > > > user mode. > > > > I wo

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
d 0 0 > > > > > > I use this to put /home on a bigger disk than the OS was installed on > > > (and recover /home from previous installs since /zooty/home hangs around). > > > > That "works" (i.e. doesn't give an error and does m

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Mike Wright
;t give an error and does mount the directory) ... Of course, I have no idea if something during boot might want /var prior to even looking at the fstab, so this might not work. ... however the system refuses to boot (SDDM throws an error, then system reboots). Something doesn't like /var being

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-08-16 09:25:36, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote: >> Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename `/newvar` to >> `/var`

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote: >> Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename `/newvar` to >> `/var` and edit fstab. > I may have to do that as /var is too

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:11:09 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > That was the first thing I tried, but I can't rename /newvar to /var as > /var is "in use" and of course can't be unmounted. That sort of thing is what live media was invented for :-). Boot off a live USB stick, mount the system dis

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
age. I've copied > > /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as /var on > > reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using /var-tst > > for testing): > > > > /newvar /var-tstext4 >

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
t; > copied /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as > > /var on reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using > > /var-tst for testing): > > > > /newvar /var-tstext4 > >

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
n't give an error and does mount the directory) ... > Of course, I have no idea if something during boot might want > /var prior to even looking at the fstab, so this might not work. ... however the system refuses to boot (SDDM throws an error, then system reboots). Something doesn'

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread George N. White III
ar on > reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using /var-tst > for testing): > > /newvar /var-tstext4 > loop0 0 > > but I'm getting: > > mount: /var-tst: failed to setup loop device for /new

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Tim via users
> /var on reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using > /var-tst for testing): > > /newvar /var-tstext4 > loop0 0 > > but I'm getting: > > mount: /var-tst: failed to setup loop

Re: Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
0 0 I use this to put /home on a bigger disk than the OS was installed on (and recover /home from previous installs since /zooty/home hangs around). Of course, I have no idea if something during boot might want /var prior to even looking at the fstab, s

Loopback mount in fstab fails

2019-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I'm trying to rationalise space by moving my /var directory from its own partition to /, as currently there's a lot of wastage. I've copied /var to /newvar with rsync, and now want to mount /newvar as /var on reboot by creating an entry in /etc/fstab. This is it (using /var-

Re: why would "rpm -V setup" show /etc/fstab with changed mode?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
chose the "setup" package since it consists of numerous > fundamental system files for which some errors in verification would > be cause for concern, and got the following on my F27 system: > > $ rpm -V setup > .M... c /etc/fstab > S.5T. c /etc/printcap &g

why would "rpm -V setup" show /etc/fstab with changed mode?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s fundamental system files for which some errors in verification would be cause for concern, and got the following on my F27 system: $ rpm -V setup .M... c /etc/fstab S.5T. c /etc/printcap S.5T. c /etc/profile .MG.. g /var/log/lastlog $ i have no problem with files

Re: sda/dev issues.. mounting fstab/exports/mtab..

2018-02-12 Thread bruce
Hey. Thanks! Just found the offending lines in the /etc/fstab file on the nfs server... The little things.. On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 02/12/2018 10:40 AM, bruce wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I've screwed up a test system. Somehow I've

Re: sda/dev issues.. mounting fstab/exports/mtab..

2018-02-12 Thread Rick Stevens
eed to change to remove them?? files/processes/etc... Er, "sudo lsof | grep cloud_nfs_" to see if anything's using those mount points. If not, then I'd assume something like sudo umount /cloud_nfs_fetch sudo umount /cloud/nfs_parse should unmount

sda/dev issues.. mounting fstab/exports/mtab..

2018-02-12 Thread bruce
Hi. I've screwed up a test system. Somehow I've managed to "link/attach" 3 dirs df -h shows /dev/vda130G 9.0G 19G 33% / tmpfs 499M 0 499M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda296G 274M 280G 1% /cloud_nfs /dev/sda296G 274M 280G 1% /cloud_nfs_fetch /dev/sda

Re: F-18 nfs in /etc/fstab & autofs mount

2013-05-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 13 May 2013 15:01:31 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > > I know shared yum cache, but it's a pet project. > > > > Oh, I see now. I had a difficult time to grok what you're > getting at since I didn't make a connection with what you are > trying to do. > > Looks like you're trying to shar

Re: F-18 nfs in /etc/fstab & autofs mount

2013-05-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/13/13 14:41, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2013 05:26:52 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Well, have you tried removing no_root_squash and re-exporting? >> > Same [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/18' > > I know shared yum cache, but it's a pet project. > Oh, I see now.

Re: F-18 nfs in /etc/fstab & autofs mount

2013-05-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 13 May 2013 05:26:52 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > > Well, have you tried removing no_root_squash and re-exporting? > Same [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/18' I know shared yum cache, but it's a pet project. -- Regards, Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min www.frankly3d

Re: F-18 nfs in /etc/fstab & autofs mount

2013-05-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/13/13 05:08, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2013 03:37:41 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On the server what is the contents of /etc/exports? >> > /exported_dir > 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0(rw,wdelay,sync,no_root_squash) > > > Well, have you tried removing no_root_squash and re-exportin

Re: F-18 nfs in /etc/fstab & autofs mount

2013-05-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 13 May 2013 03:37:41 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > > On the server what is the contents of /etc/exports? > /exported_dir 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0(rw,wdelay,sync,no_root_squash) -- Regards, Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: F-18 nfs in /etc/fstab & autofs mount

2013-05-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/13/13 00:52, Frank Murphy wrote: > If I mount the server export on the client in /etc/fstab > > or mount "server:/export /mountpoint" it works > > but if setup as autofs.nfs on the client > > -rw,hard,intr,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 > se

F-18 nfs in /etc/fstab & autofs mount

2013-05-12 Thread Frank Murphy
If I mount the server export on the client in /etc/fstab or mount "server:/export /mountpoint" it works but if setup as autofs.nfs on the client -rw,hard,intr,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 server:/export it says [Errno 13] Permission denied: /export/remote_dir the

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-26 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
unit mounted if present. >> >> The fsck is (I believe) controlled independently from noauto >> by one of the two obscure numbers on the end of the mount >> line (which may actually be documented in the fstab >> man page). >> > It is, that's what I was me

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/26/2013 03:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Since these machines hold backup copies of data, hopefully they don't need to be up immediately. If needed there will be someone present to supervise, although if the RAID boxes are connected they could be powered on remotely, manually fsck'd, and mo

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2013 12:01 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: The time to recover typical issues in a journaled filesystem is minimal, if the f/s is really borked there will be an admin present during the boot anyway. What are the boxes set to do when power is restored after a failure? Stay o

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2013 12:01 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: The time to recover typical issues in a journaled filesystem is minimal, if the f/s is really borked there will be an admin present during the boot anyway. What are the boxes set to do when power is restored after a failure? Stay off, turn on, or

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
es any of these things you tried work on Fedora 17 or 18 ? fc1[78] have the "nofail" option in fstab, which on paper does what I want. I have to set up a test system, or test case on a system, so I can verify that the result is what I want, but it looks like the logic is what I want

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread David Timms
On 24/02/13 06:24, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... > Yes, that was an attempt to avoid the hang on boot, what I really need > is more complex, and I may have to put it in rc.local to make it work, > although I will test on Fedora using the nofail option. As I look at the > RHEL world, I expect RHEL7 to be

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
from noauto by one of the two obscure numbers on the end of the mount line (which may actually be documented in the fstab man page). It is, that's what I was mentioning in the 2nd paragraph, the fsck field controls the order in which checks are done before mounting, to be sure that mounts on

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Tom Horsley
uto by one of the two obscure numbers on the end of the mount line (which may actually be documented in the fstab man page). Using noauto though means it won't mount it at all. You'd have to do something like put a mount command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local that could simply fail if the device isn

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 02/23/2013 12:37 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I thought the 'nofail' option would solve the problem, but that appears > to be a very recent option, and not in RHEL running on this server. > > Any thoughts gratefully accepted, we try to keep vital infrastructure > running on RHEL rather than Fedor

optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have a system used for backups, and when it boots it *may* have any or all of a number of small hot-swap RAID storage units connected by eSATA. Ideally I would like the system to fsck and mount these when present, using the UUID= option in fstab. There's a problem. If the units ar

Re: Dropbox cannot enable user_xattr in /etc/fstab

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:51 AM, suvayu ali wrote: >>>> Has someone manage to have Dropbox to work on F17? I have installed >>>> it, but I get the following error: >>>> >>>> "cannot enable user_xattr in /etc/fstab" >>>> >&

Re: Dropbox cannot enable user_xattr in /etc/fstab

2012-06-07 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, suvayu ali > wrote: >>> Has someone manage to have Dropbox to work on F17? I have installed >>> it, but I get the following error: >>> >>> "cannot enable user_

Re: Dropbox cannot enable user_xattr in /etc/fstab

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, suvayu ali wrote: >> Has someone manage to have Dropbox to work on F17? I have installed >> it, but I get the following error: >> >> "cannot enable user_xattr in /etc/fstab" >> >> Any ideas? > > A minute of sear

Re: Dropbox cannot enable user_xattr in /etc/fstab

2012-06-07 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Has someone manage to have Dropbox to work on F17? I have installed > it, but I get the following error: > > "cannot enable user_xattr in /etc/fstab" > > Any ideas? > A minut

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