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Re: Missing Partitions - RH5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 11 14:34:06 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:32:09 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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> >>>>> "rp" == Raymond Popowich <popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:
>
> rp> I upgraded from Red Hat 5.1 to Red Hat 5.2 this afternoon. My only
> rp> major problems seems to be that I can no longer access any mounted
> rp> partitions except for /. For example, I mount /temp on /dev/hdd3 but
> rp> it does not mount. The listing is still in /etc/fstab. The partition
> rp> still gets checked during boot. A 'df' only shows /. Thoughts?
>
There is a bug in 5.2's /etc/fstab parsing. It ignores everything after the
first occurance of "ignore". Just move all the "ignore" lines at the end.
You can use spaces and tabs in any combination - that was not the bug.
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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