On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 16:39 -0500, Gene Poole wrote: > > Let me clarify: > At boot time when all of the entries in fstab are normally > mounted, > the duplicates in the fstab are not mounted. The duplicate > entries > are a result of the following: > As an example, I entered a 'ls -ltr /usr/oracle' and a single > line > containing 0 was returned (it should have at least showed the > lost+found directory entry). > I then entered 'sudo mount -a'; and received many messages > stating > that there are missing mount points. > As an example I entered 'sudo mkdir -p /usr/oracle' > I then entered: 'sudo mount /dev/mapper/DBMSVG00-DBMSLV00 > /usr/oracle' (from my fstab entry) > At this point is when I realized that there are now duplicate > entries in fstab, however, /usr/oracle is available and > usable. > > I hope this clarifies my situation. Things are getting confusing. Returning to a previous comment mounting a file-system does not add anything to fstab. mount -a mounts those entries in the fstab. Show us a fstab file with duplicate entries. -- ======================================================================= Hard reality has a way of cramping your style. -- Daniel Dennett ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx