On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:54 -0500, Matthew Crocker wrote: > Hello, > > I have a fresh FC3 minimal install running using LVM2 to manage my > drives. I have created some logical volumes, installed ext3 as a > filesystem on them and added them to /etc/fstab. When I attempt to > mount them using 'mount -a' or 'mount /nfs/home' I get an error > message. When I attempt to mount them with 'mount > /dev/VolumeGroup00/Home00 /nfs/home' it works > > I don't think it matters but the drives are 6 SCSI drives behind an > Adaptec 2010S RAID controller. > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 gets mounted on / during boot and was > created by the Fedora Install program > /dev/VolGroup00/Home00 doesn't mount on boot and was created by me > using lvcreate, mke2fs. What steps did I miss? > > Here is some output... > > [root@fs1 ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 15126920 954436 13404076 7% / > /dev/i2o/hda1 101086 18557 77310 20% /boot > none 1037300 0 1037300 0% /dev/shm > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LDAP00 > 222135 2062 208605 1% /var/lib/ldap > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-SQL00 > 10321208 1400 9900380 1% /var/lib/mysql > [root@fs1 ~]# cat /etc/fstab > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults > 1 1 > /dev/VolGroup00/Home00 /nfs/home ext3 defaults > 1 2 > /dev/VolGroup00/LDAP00 /var/lib/ldap ext3 defaults > 1 3 > /dev/VolGroup00/Mail00 /nfs/mail ext3 defaults > 1 4 > /dev/VolGroup00/SQL00 /var/lib/mysql ext3 defaults > 1 5 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults > 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults > 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed > 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed > 0 0 > [root@fs1 ~]# mount /nfs/home > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > /dev/VolGroup00/Home00, > or too many mounted file systems > [root@fs1 ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/Home00 /nfs/home > [root@fs1 ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 15126920 954436 13404076 7% / > /dev/i2o/hda1 101086 18557 77310 20% /boot > none 1037300 0 1037300 0% /dev/shm > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LDAP00 > 222135 2062 208605 1% /var/lib/ldap > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-SQL00 > 10321208 1400 9900380 1% /var/lib/mysql > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Home00 > 51606140 53272 48931428 1% /nfs/home > [root@fs1 ~]# > > [root@fs1 ~]# mount -v /nfs/mail > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > /dev/VolGroup00/Mail00, > or too many mounted file systems > [root@fs1 ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/Mail00 /nfs/mail > [root@fs1 ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 15126920 954436 13404076 7% / > /dev/i2o/hda1 101086 18557 77310 20% /boot > none 1037300 0 1037300 0% /dev/shm > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LDAP00 > 222135 2062 208605 1% /var/lib/ldap > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-SQL00 > 10321208 1400 9900380 1% /var/lib/mysql > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Home00 > 51606140 53272 48931428 1% /nfs/home > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Mail00 > 103212320 61464 97907976 1% /nfs/mail > [root@fs1 ~]# > On the surface, everything looks sane. What does /etc/mtab look like when you mount the filesystem manually? I'm guessing it may have been formated with ext2. Daniel