[SOLVED] fstab problems fc17 hanging on boot

[rebible]

I am upgrading to fedora 17. I am trying to recreate the previous environment.

When I put in the same fstab lines... It hangs during boot:'

here is my fstab file. What is wrong? I assume that there are other files I need to deall with now.

/etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Thu Jul 12 05:44:52 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=21243c7f-10da-4b58-9204-13107b0aab0b /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb/ /mnt/flash vfat auto,sync,user,rw 0 0
/dev/sdc/ /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,sync,user,rw 0 0
/dev/loop0 /mnt/storage vfat user,noauto,rw,loop 0 0

[glennzo]

Comment out the lines you've added then uncomment them one at a time to see where the issue is.

[stevea]

This isn't right,

/dev/loop0 /mnt/storage vfat user,noauto,rw,loop 0 0

you cannot mount a loop device until you associate it with a file using losetup for example


If there is any fstab syntax it might be like ....

/home/somefile.vfat /mnt/storage vfat user,noauto,rw,loop 0 0

---------- Post added at 04:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:24 AM ----------

Yes - that syntax works.

[rebible]

I solved the problem

I went through and used tabs instead of spaces.
I changed sdb to sdb1 (this seemed to be an issue)
I tested it with mount -a to run the fstab until things worked and then it booted up fine.


robert