FC3: Trouble mounting LVM2 LVs in /etc/fstab

[Daniel Buggie]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:54 -0500, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I have a fresh FC3 minimal install running using LVM2 to manage my 
> drives.  I have created some logical volumes, installed ext3 as a 
> filesystem on them and added them to /etc/fstab.   When I attempt to 
> mount them using 'mount -a' or 'mount /nfs/home' I get an error 
> message.  When I attempt to mount them with 'mount 
> /dev/VolumeGroup00/Home00 /nfs/home'  it works
> 
> I don't think it matters but the drives are 6  SCSI drives behind an 
> Adaptec 2010S RAID controller.
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00  gets mounted on /  during boot and was 
> created by the Fedora Install program
> /dev/VolGroup00/Home00 doesn't mount on boot and was created by me 
> using lvcreate, mke2fs.   What steps did I miss?
> 
> Here is some output...
> 
> [root at fs1 ~]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                        15126920    954436  13404076   7% /
> /dev/i2o/hda1           101086     18557     77310  20% /boot
> none                   1037300         0   1037300   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LDAP00
>                          222135      2062    208605   1% /var/lib/ldap
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-SQL00
>                        10321208      1400   9900380   1% /var/lib/mysql
> [root at fs1 ~]# cat /etc/fstab
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults       
>   1 1
> /dev/VolGroup00/Home00   /nfs/home               ext3    defaults       
>   1 2
> /dev/VolGroup00/LDAP00   /var/lib/ldap           ext3    defaults       
>   1 3
> /dev/VolGroup00/Mail00   /nfs/mail               ext3    defaults       
>   1 4
> /dev/VolGroup00/SQL00    /var/lib/mysql          ext3    defaults       
>   1 5
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        
> 1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  
> 0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        
> 0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        
> 0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        
> 0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults       
>   0 0
> /dev/hdc                /media/cdrom            auto    
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 
> 0 0
> [root at fs1 ~]# mount /nfs/home
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 
> /dev/VolGroup00/Home00,
>         or too many mounted file systems
> [root at fs1 ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/Home00 /nfs/home
> [root at fs1 ~]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                        15126920    954436  13404076   7% /
> /dev/i2o/hda1           101086     18557     77310  20% /boot
> none                   1037300         0   1037300   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LDAP00
>                          222135      2062    208605   1% /var/lib/ldap
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-SQL00
>                        10321208      1400   9900380   1% /var/lib/mysql
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Home00
>                        51606140     53272  48931428   1% /nfs/home
> [root at fs1 ~]#
> 
> [root at fs1 ~]# mount -v /nfs/mail
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 
> /dev/VolGroup00/Mail00,
>         or too many mounted file systems
> [root at fs1 ~]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/Mail00 /nfs/mail
> [root at fs1 ~]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                        15126920    954436  13404076   7% /
> /dev/i2o/hda1           101086     18557     77310  20% /boot
> none                   1037300         0   1037300   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LDAP00
>                          222135      2062    208605   1% /var/lib/ldap
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-SQL00
>                        10321208      1400   9900380   1% /var/lib/mysql
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Home00
>                        51606140     53272  48931428   1% /nfs/home
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Mail00
>                       103212320     61464  97907976   1% /nfs/mail
> [root at fs1 ~]# 
> 

On the surface, everything looks sane. What does /etc/mtab look like
when you mount the filesystem manually? I'm guessing it may have been
formated with ext2.

Daniel