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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Beware the mount(8) program from hell !
- Message-ID: <59632@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:57:37 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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- Beware the Next mount(8) from hell !
-
- It seems to have a limit on the number of spaces
- allowed between fields - and doesn't tell you
- about it except like "mount: / not found"
-
- (this happens at the top of boot.rc and cost me days,
- after adding a new disk - it never occurred to me that
- multiple spaces would be significant in 1992)
-
- ############ bad /etc/fstab ############
- /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
- /dev/sd1a /External_Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
-
- ############ good /etc/fstab ############
- /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
- /dev/sd1a /External_Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
-
- a few spaces are ok - I think its the ones before 4.3
- that caused the problem.
-
- in other cases it just silently fails with no diagnostic
- whatsoever if for some reason it cant mount the device.
- remounts cause multiple entries in /etc/mtab.
-
- great program (:
-
- always save a copy of /etc/fstab and dont line up
- your local entries with the nfs entries.
-
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