Maybe I'm doing something wrong, so I'm asking here first. If no-one points out a better way, I'll file a bug report. Also I'd appreciate guidance where best to file it. During boot I want to mount an iso9660 file as a loop device. The iso file is on a ext3 partition labelled HUGE_01 which is mounted at /mnt/huge. FILE = /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso MOUNTPOINT = /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD. The mount succeeds. However during boot I get this unnecessary failure message: Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] [snip] Mounting other filesystems: mount: according to mtab /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso is already mounted on /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD as loop [ FAILED ] >From a user perspective, this error message seems equivalent to: "Because we tried unnecessarily to mount this device a second time after it had already mounted successfully, we now report to you that the second attempt failed." So a failure is reported where no failure occurred. Worse, a failure is reported for the reason that it already succeeded. This seems illogical and unnecessary. Unless I'm doing somethin' stoopid. Relevant details are below. Thanks, David ################################################# [f12@kablamm ~]$ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=kablamm_C / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=kablamm_Z /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 LABEL=BIG_01 /mnt/big ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=HUGE_01 /mnt/huge ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=kablamm_H /home ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=kablamm_S swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD iso9660 loop,ro,gid=share 0 0 [f12@kablamm ~]$ ls -lZ /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso -r--r-----. root share system_u:object_r:mount_loopback_t:s0 /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso [f12@kablamm ~]$ mount -l /dev/sda8 on / type ext3 (rw) [kablamm_C] proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0") /dev/sda3 on /boot type ext2 (rw) [kablamm_Z] /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/big type ext3 (rw) [BIG_01] /dev/sdb2 on /mnt/huge type ext3 (rw) [HUGE_01] /dev/sda10 on /home type ext3 (rw) [kablamm_H] /dev/loop0 on /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD type iso9660 (ro,gid=502) [Fedora 12 i386 DVD] none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/f12/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=f12) [f12@kablamm ~]$ uname -r 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
