[98556] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 5.2 upgrade & /etc/fstab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lewis)
Mon Nov 9 17:53:21 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:23:09 +0000
From: John Lewis <jayell@mcmail.com>
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Jan Carlson said in reply to Afanassy Thompson
> 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.
I think I read somewhere that you have to use _tabs_ rather than spaces in
fstab. Guess its a feature!!
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