[98907] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 5.2 upgrade & /etc/fstab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Bauer)
Wed Nov 11 04:15:13 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:14:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Patrick Bauer <bauerp@niagara.com>
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What i did... was to re-build /etc/fstab... using vi... i re-typed all the
entries manually..
Pat.
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:
> 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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> Jan Carlson
> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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