On Wednesday 22 February 2006 10:56, Paul Howarth wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Something strange is happening in my attempts to write to fstab. I have > > added, for instance, > > > > LABEL=/OldData > > /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2 > > > > then umounted the manual mount of /mnt/data and run > > > > [root@david ~]# mount -a > > mount: mount point does not exist > > > > However, the mount occurs and /mnt/data is readable in konqueror. > > > > Clearly there is some sort of problem, but what? > > There appears to be two lines: > > LABEL=/OldData > > This line does not have enough fields and is the one mount complains about. > > /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2 > > This line has the right number of fields and hence works. Hi, Paul. I copied from the existing entries, not realising that the display had split the lines. However, I not get [mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 12 in /etc/fstab is bad These are my entries: LABEL=/OldData /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2 LABEL=/home_july05 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/home_july05 ext3 users 1 2 LABEL=/mnt/home_dec05 /dev/hdb11 /mnt/home_dec05 ext3 users 1 2 LABEL=OldVideo /dev/hdb8 /mnt/video ext3 users 1 2 In each case KWrite is highlighting the final parameter. I know that these parameters concern checking, but I don't much much else, so again I copied from the existing /home line. Advice, please? Anne
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