On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 16:56 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. Correct. mount adds entries in /etc/mtab (not /etc/fstab) and then only if mount is invoked _without_ the "-n" flag. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
