[mdlug] need fstab and/or openGL help

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Fri May 11 07:14:06 EDT 2007


Wolfger wrote:
> With the new board and chip came a new install of a new (version of
> my) distro, and with that came... new problems! Yay!
> 
> To start with, my drives aren't mounting properly. I copied the lines
> right out of my old fstab into the new one, but my ~/Shared and
> ~/torrents dirs don't get mounted.
> wolfger at 1[~]$ cat /etc/fstab
> # Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
> /dev/hda2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
> /dev/hdb2 /home/wolfger/torrents ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
> /dev/hdb5 /home/wolfger/Shared ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
            ^^^^^^


> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
            ^^^^^^

I should have seen this earlier.  The boot mounts the filesystems in the
order they're listed in the fstab.  You're mounting /home *after*
/home/wolfger/*.  The mount fails because there is no mountpoint when it
tries during boot.  Place the mountpoints in the right order, this won't
happen.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>



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