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- From: yaron@aristo.tau.ac.il (Yaron Zabary)
- Subject: Re: scsi disk install proble
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.145206.17054@aristo.tau.ac.il>
- Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:52:06 GMT
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- alan kennedy (alan.kennedy@canrem.com) wrote:
- > I had to rebuild one of our machines from scratch this week, and
- > everything is fine but one thing.
-
- > I reinstalled a SCSI drive in both the mtab and fstab;
-
- > fstab and mtab additions were;
- > /dev/dsk/dks0d4s7 /usr8 efs rw,raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d4s7 0 0
-
- > The drive seems to work fine, but when I launched the SystemChest and ran
- > System Manager, Disktools, I got the following warning;
-
- > "These following entries are invalid or inconsistent:"
- > "File Sys: /dev/dsk/dks0d4s7 Mount dir: /usr8 File: /etc/mtab"
-
- > Did I do something wrong with the mtab? Like I said the drive seems to be
- > operation just fine. I have looked at data that was there prior to the
- > rebuild, moved stuff, etc. and no problems. I didn't get that warning
- > before, so I must have screwed something up.
-
-
- You are not supposed to put anything in /etc/mtab by yourself. mount(1m)
- should deal with it. You should only update /etc/fstab . Your fstab entry
- seems fine to me.
-
- --
-
- -- Yaron.
-