From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 Description of problem: Failed to mount /home on boot, when run mount -a or mount the /home fs manually, mounts /home on /usr partition, then on correct partition. Umount umounts both. STRANGE! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I think this is obvious if your system manifests this problem. I have no idea why is would happen on my system and not on another. I didn't tweek anything, this is a plain vanilla RH8 install. Additional info: See output of df -m, mtab, /proc/mounts, fstab, & e2label (Look at /home): -ksh-2.05b$ df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 486 81 380 18% / /dev/hda2 3088 46 2886 2% /home none 125 0 124 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 4841 2055 2540 45% /usr /dev/hda5 687 62 591 10% /var /dev/hda3 3088 46 2886 2% /home -ksh-2.05b$ cat /etc/mtab /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda2 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda2 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /var ext3 rw 0 0 automount(pid705) /home autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=705,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 rw 0 0 -ksh-2.05b$ cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /dev/hda2 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda2 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /var ext3 rw 0 0 automount(pid705) /home autofs rw 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 rw 0 0 -ksh-2.05b$ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 e2label output: [root@penguinista tomc]# /sbin/e2label /dev/hda1 / [root@penguinista tomc]# /sbin/e2label /dev/hda2 /usr [root@penguinista tomc]# /sbin/e2label /dev/hda3 /home [root@penguinista tomc]# /sbin/e2label /dev/hda5 /var
You're running autofs, which is trying to handle /home. Turn it off