On Wednesday 22 February 2006 10:56, Paul Howarth wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
Something strange is happening in my attempts to write to fstab. I have added, for instance,
LABEL=/OldData /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2
then umounted the manual mount of /mnt/data and run
[root@david ~]# mount -a mount: mount point does not exist
However, the mount occurs and /mnt/data is readable in konqueror.
Clearly there is some sort of problem, but what?
There appears to be two lines:
LABEL=/OldData
This line does not have enough fields and is the one mount complains about.
/dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2
This line has the right number of fields and hence works.
Hi, Paul. I copied from the existing entries, not realising that the display had split the lines. However, I not get
[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 12 in /etc/fstab is bad
These are my entries:
LABEL=/OldData /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data ext3 users 1 2 LABEL=/home_july05 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/home_july05 ext3 users 1 2 LABEL=/mnt/home_dec05 /dev/hdb11 /mnt/home_dec05 ext3 users 1 2 LABEL=OldVideo /dev/hdb8 /mnt/video ext3 users 1 2
In each case KWrite is highlighting the final parameter. I know that these parameters concern checking, but I don't much much else, so again I copied from the existing /home line.
Advice, please?
Anne