fstab issue

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Spaz17 · Post by **Spaz17** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:22 pm

i cant get /backup or /boot to mount
--i cant access them after booting

/dev/hda1               /boot           ext3            noauto,noatime          1 2
/dev/hda2               none            swap            sw                      0 0
/dev/hda3               /               ext3            noauto,noatime          0 1
/dev/hda4               /backup         ext3            noauto,noatime          0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro               0 0
none                    /proc           proc            defaults                0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults                0 0

help?

ectospasm · Post by **ectospasm** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:40 pm

First, why do you have / with the "noauto" option? That option is for filesystems that you do not want to be mounted at boot. / needs to be mounted at boot.

Only thing I can think of for not being able to mount /boot or /backup is that you are not the superuser when trying to mount them. Could you give us the exact error message that you get when you try to mount them?

Also, some of your dump and fsck options (trailing numbers at the end of each /etc/fstab line) are a little screwy, but that shouldn't affect your ability to mount them. I'd check the fstab man page to set those properly.

GenKiller · Post by **GenKiller** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:41 pm

Are you trying to mount them as root?

If you want a user to be able to mount/unmount the partitions you need to specify 'user' as an option in fstab.

For example:

/dev/hda4 /backup ext3 noauto,noatime,user 0 1

Spaz17 · Post by **Spaz17** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:47 pm

to clearify:
its not that _im_ trying to mount them, its that i want the system to at boot

its the 5th and 6th fields --the fs_freq and fs_passno that really confuse me
the man entry mentions dumping, and i am clueless

so, basically, im asking what the 5th and 6th fields should be

ectospasm · Post by **ectospasm** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:55 pm

To mount /boot and /backup at boot time, just remove the "noauto" option. The dump command is simply a backup utility IIRC, if you don't intend to use it don't worry about it. I have every dump/pass option set to 0 0 in my /etc/fstab, but you might want to have it differently. 0 0 just means those filesystems will get skipped for dump and fsck. I'm not advocating this setup, it's just the setup I use.