Description of problem: When installing FC9 and attempting to use secondary file systems such as /var/log, /var/spool/, /var/spool/squid and so on, they never get mounted unless issuing from the console, AFTER the system is booted completely, a mount -a. /var gets mounted just fine, but not the subsequent filesystems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): It happens on FC9, not on fc8+updates. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a fresh new FC9 system, chose a custom layout for the disk partitions, and create under /var filesystems such as /var/spool, /var/spool/squid, stuff like this 2. finish the installation 3. log into the system and check the file systems mounted. Actual results: The /var/spool, /var/spool/squid, /var/log and whatever is created under /var is not mounted, they have to be mounted with mount -a. Expected results: These should get mounted automatically as they do with FC8. If a system reboots it requires manual mounting of those filesystems, which is not an option. Additional info:
This is how fstab looks like: [root@fc9 ~]# cat /etc/fstab UUID=b2906b3c-2bfd-4aae-b190-9786f8ffd24a / ext3 defaults 1 1 UUID=048dbdee-f309-42a4-9837-79fa22131c07 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=090053ed-67f2-46b1-8608-95af81c0883b /home ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=65c81271-7f6b-4767-b425-559c81671782 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=89449680-4081-43d6-8df6-78e13b907087 /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=9ad95a1b-8714-4b60-a352-6ddb50e39461 /var/spool ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=2d441ac7-57b7-41fe-ab3b-338b08557f31 /var/spool/squid xfs defaults 1 2 UUID=c2596b60-be60-4362-b2eb-9f0294a10b12 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 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 UUID=aaaee770-487f-49b2-9151-67bc9dbaa5f9 swap swap defaults 0 0 Also, just right after reboot: [root@fc9 ~]# uptime 11:08:24 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.45, 0.15, 0.05 [root@fc9 ~]# mount /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda7 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda3 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda9 on /var/log type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda5 on /usr type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) [root@fc9 ~]# mount -a [root@fc9 ~]# mount /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda7 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda3 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda9 on /var/log type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda5 on /usr type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) /dev/sda8 on /var/spool type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda10 on /var/spool/squid type xfs (rw) Someone suggested also to provide this: [root@fc9 ~]# chkconfig --list netfs netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ...even though as far as I remember, since when the netfs script was deployed as a service (I dont' even remember when, I think it was since redhat 7 or 8) it was supposed to mount nfs, smbfs and other network file systems.
Also, changing /etc/fstab from using UUIDs to using the disk partition names doesn't help: /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda6 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda3 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda9 /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda8 /var/spool ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda10 /var/spool/squid xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sda5 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 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/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 This is a default install from the FC9 i386 DVD: [root@fc9 ~]# uname -a Linux fc9.hdinit.exe 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@fc9 ~]# rpm -q initscripts initscripts-8.76-1.i386 The DVD SHA1 checksum is: 50253a35b5ba128c9a57b2a10cbd829813fc5119 Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso However, after upgrading the system everything works as expected.