[98447] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 5.2 upgrade & /etc/fstab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 9 05:41:31 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 05:40:56 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Afanassy Thompson wrote:
> I've upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2. The most pressing problem is that only
> some of /etc/fstab is read.
> /proc is reported as not being found as are 2 partitions. The entries
> are there.
5.2 seems picky about spacing. These lines will work, if they are the first
non-comments in your file. Spacing counts. I think it's a bug in the
parsing.
/dev/sda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>
>
> Does anyone have a fix. The only error messages are that they're not
> found in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. I know one other person had this
> same problem with an upgrade. Some of it is read just fine.
>
> Clean install is not a good option- this is on a server.
> Afanassy
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