*From:* Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 20:31 UTC+11
*To:* users@lists.fedoraproject.org
*Subject:* RE: Strange Systemd Messages
On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 07:57 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
That message is for an nfs network device while the same message at the bottom is for the cifs interface to the same device, but why is it saying that they are not a device when they were successfully mounted. Having said this though I was trying to use this as a safeguard against the device not "talking" causing, as it has done in the past, other mounts to not be done.
The message is a bit arbitrary, but checking a network file system from the remote is not intended IIRC, so disable the file system check option in fstab. Do the checks on the remote system.
Although the message is not as clear as it might be, it's still a big no-no to try to run fsck on *any* mounted filesystem, local or remote. Given that remote implies mounted, that's enough reason for the error.
From what I've been able to determine the remote system doesn't appear to provide checking functionality, so adding checking options on to the device entries in fstab was the only way I could see to prevent the device being unavailable from terminating the fstab process at the mount of that device as has happened numerous times in the past. I should not have to put the mount of the device at the end of fstab for mounts that are specified after it in fstab to be actioned. Just on the checking topic, what is the difference between checking a device on your machine and a network device that is semi-local, ie: attached to my local router. As far as I am concerned they are both the same.
regards, Steve
poc