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Re: not mounting a partition?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Kleber)
Wed Dec 2 14:17:26 1998

From: Michael Kleber <kleber@math.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:11:19 -0500 (EST)
To: felix@deasil.com, redhat-list@redhat.com
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> I just did a couple upgrades to my 5.1 install - installed some 5.2
> packages.  Now, however, when I reboot the machine does not mount
> my /usr/local partition automatically.  And when I try:
>
> mount /usr/local
>
> it says it can't find it in /etc/mtab or /etc/fastb

A number of other 5.2 upgradees have reported that any lines in
/etc/fstab after one with an "ignore" type partition get lost,
if I recall correctly.  Does your fstab have any ignores in it?
If so, move your /usr/local entry before them and see if that 
fixes it.

--Michael Kleber
  kleber@math.mit.edu


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