Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 27353
FSTAB options ignored by mount
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:26 EDT
I thought I'd entered this report yesterday, but didnt see it in the db so this is a repeat entry.... I had a problem executing scripts stored on a cdrom, which was due to my cdrom being mounted with the noexec option. The fstabe entry looks like this: /dev/hdb/ /mnt/cdrom iso9660 exec,noauto,ro,user,suid 0 0 The command 'mount /dev/hdb' produced the following line in /etc/mtab: /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,noexec,nodev 0 0 It appears that the exec option in the fstab is being ignored. The following, explicit mount command: 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom produced the following line in /etc/mtab: /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom ro 0 0 After this I was able to execute scripts stored on the cdrom, so the problem is not urgent for me. I did not see this problem, which seeems more like a bug than a feature, in the 'Redhat Linux, 6.2, mount' selection from the db, but if it has already been covered under wider scope, my apologies.
I have a similar problem when trying to mount a volume on a NetWare fileserver. As per the ncpmount man page you can use mount option "ipserver=" to connect via TCP/IP without configuring IPX on the linux box. The option is supposed to correlate with a -A switch on the ncpmount command line. But when mount calls ncpmount, the command line is missing that switch. Since I haven't configured IPX on this box it returns some sort of error relating to not being able to find the server even though the server is listed in the hosts file. This happens if the option is listed in the fstab file, or it also happens if I try the mount command line manually. Either way it's like it misses the ipserver option. If I enter the ncpmount line manually with the -A option, it doesn't have any problems mounting the file system.
This works correctly in 7.2