Description of problem:

Systems booted and was appearing to do an fsck but was failing because of the args past in via /etc/fstab

/ partition referenced in /etc/fstab looked like this (note the -e)

[root@seaking ~]# cat /etc/fstab 

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Jan  7 15:10:37 2011
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
-e/dev/mapper/rootvg-rootlv /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=1d960796-c08d-4a0d-926f-3cf3c193ebd2 /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-tmplv /tmp                    ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-varlv /var                    ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-crashlv /var/crash              ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-swaplv swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/md0	        /data		ext4	defaults,nodiratime,noatime,barrier=0	0 0

Notice how mount -a doesn't recognize an issue

[root@seaking ~]# mount -a
[root@seaking ~]#

Now if I add a space after -e an issue is recognized.

[root@seaking ~]# cat /etc/fstab 

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Jan  7 15:10:37 2011
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
-e /dev/mapper/rootvg-rootlv /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=1d960796-c08d-4a0d-926f-3cf3c193ebd2 /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-tmplv /tmp                    ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-varlv /var                    ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-crashlv /var/crash              ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/rootvg-swaplv swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/md0	        /data		ext4	defaults,nodiratime,noatime,barrier=0	0 0

[root@seaking ~]# mount -a
[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


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Actual results:

mount -a
echo $? returns 0 


Expected results:

mount -a should be able to catch the noted typo above


Additional info:

[root@seaking ~]# for fs in $(awk '!/^#/ {print $1}' /etc/fstab) ; do mount -fv ${fs} >/dev/null || echo ${fs} ; done
mount: invalid option -- 'e'
Usage: mount -V                 : print version
       mount -h                 : print this help
       mount                    : list mounted filesystems
       mount -l                 : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
       mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
       mount device             : mount device at the known place
       mount directory          : mount known device here
       mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
       mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
       mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
       mount --make-shared dir
       mount --make-slave dir
       mount --make-private dir
       mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
       mount --make-rshared dir
       mount --make-rslave dir
       mount --make-rprivate dir
       mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say  man 8 mount .
-e/dev/mapper/rootvg-rootlv
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /boot

UUID=1d960796-c08d-4a0d-926f-3cf3c193ebd2
mount: according to mtab, /dev/mapper/rootvg-tmplv is already mounted on /tmp

/dev/mapper/rootvg-tmplv
mount: according to mtab, /dev/mapper/rootvg-varlv is already mounted on /var

/dev/mapper/rootvg-varlv
mount: according to mtab, /dev/mapper/rootvg-crashlv is already mounted on /var/crash

/dev/mapper/rootvg-crashlv
mount: according to mtab, /dev/mapper/rootvg-swaplv is already mounted on swap

/dev/mapper/rootvg-swaplv
mount: according to mtab, tmpfs is already mounted on /dev/shm

tmpfs
mount: according to mtab, devpts is already mounted on /dev/pts

devpts
mount: according to mtab, sysfs is already mounted on /sys

sysfs
mount: according to mtab, proc is already mounted on /proc

proc
mount: according to mtab, /dev/md0 is already mounted on /data

/dev/md0