Re: Writing to fstab

Anne Wilson wrote:

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?

LABEL=/OldData

*instead of*

/dev/hdb9

Paul.