mount doesn't mount on boot-up [Solved]

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Nov 2 16:51:45 UTC 2006


Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 10:14 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>> For the record: Paul Howarth had suggested a fix which post I 
>> somehow missed, to wit:
>>
>> "With the drive not mounted, do:
>> $ chcon -t mnt_t /home/cj/archive
>>
>> You can then simulate the attempted mount at boot time:
>> # service netfs start
> 
> Wouldn't that (the service netfs start) only affect mounts that traverse
> a network?

That's what you might think given the name, but it actually tries to 
mount everything, network-based or not. Try unmounting a local 
filesystem you have listed in fstab and see for yourself.

Paul.




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