Writing to fstab

[Paul Howarth]

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 at 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.

Paul.