Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111007
fstab mounts are not mounted at boot time
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:34 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: It is not clear to me that this is a autosf problem, mount problem, or init problem. Change as needed. Disk configuration is 60GB hda with three primary partions for FC1. Added a fourth 32 GB primary partition that I want to mount as /pub and make available to all users. Partition is made and successfully mounted and used by root. Change permissions to allow all users to rwx /pub filesystem. Place this line in fstab ... /dev/hda4 /pub ext3 auto,user,dev,exec,rw,async 0 0 On boot the filesystem does not mount automatically. After boot, '# mount -a' does not mount the files either. '# mount /pub' does mount it ... Adding this line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local ... mount /pub filesystem then mounts at boot correctly. It appears the fault lies with 'mount -a' not working correctly. Verifying the mounts by examining /etc/mtab confirms behavior. I tried many combinations of fstab entries and could not find a combo that works. Search fedora-devel-list for my email address to see one exchange. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autofs-3.1.7-42, mount-2.11y-29 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add entry for new disk partition to fstab 2. reboot 3. filesystem not mounted at boot Actual Results: filesystem not mounted. mount -a does not appear to work. mount /pub does work. Expected Results: Should mount the additional partition automatically at boot. Additional info:
More information... I had a second disk (hdb) which I was going to copy files from after I installed the new disk. It has a RH9 installtion on board. Config is hda is new and hda has old install of RH9. The conflict is apparently the fact that there are now two disk partitions with LABEL=/boot. This causes the partition table held by the main OS to be messed up. The /boot dir of the hda drive shows blank, no files or folders. Is there any way to have two installs of RH or FC1 on the same computer? This implies no. For a normal user this may be a problem if down the road they upgrade the primary disk drive and want to copy files like I did. Need a mention in docs or a work around IMHO. tb
If the 2nd disk is there during the install anaconda will label the 2nd one /boot1 etc. There is nothing to stop you from doing that manually if you add the disk after install.
Thanks ... I have got it pretty well figured out now, after a lot of time searching. The results of doing the drive upgrade were unexpected and to the uninitiated it appeared broke. It is quite normal to upgrade a drive these days and I would recommend a documentation entry about it so others don't fall victim. If someone knows how or who to forward this to that does docs, I would bet others that follow would be happy.
Bouncing to util-linux.
There are a few things that look wrong with that fstab line... :) /dev/hda4 /pub ext3 defaults,user 1 2 should work better... Definitely not an autofs issue.