File Systems not mounting

MaegRil · #1 9th July 2006, 09:24 PM

Hi.

I'm having trouble with certain file systems not mounting during boot.
Recently I had trouble with / been read only - even to the root user. (Maybe this new problem is related somehow) http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...ight=root+read

My new problem being that my NTFS partitions are not being mounted upon boot.
And then today, my /usr/local parition has not been mounted.

My /etc/fstab:

Code:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boinc            /boinc                  ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/opt              /opt                    ext3    defaults        1 2
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/tmp              /tmp                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/usr/local        /usr/local              ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=SWAP-sdb3         swap                    swap    sw,pri=1        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sdc3         swap                    swap    sw,pri=1        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda3         swap                    swap    sw,pri=1        0 0
192.168.13.1:/mnt/sdd   /mnt/server             nfs     rsize=32768,wsize=32768 0 0
/dev/sda1               /mnt/windows-c          ntfs    ro,umask=0200   0 0
/dev/sda5               /mnt/windows-d          ntfs    ro,umask=0200   0 0

Output from [Bmount && echo "---" && ls -ald /][/B]:

Code:

/dev/sdb8 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda8 on /boinc type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sdc5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb6 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /var type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
192.168.13.1:/mnt/sdd on /mnt/server type nfs (rw,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,addr=192.168.13.1)
automount(pid2383) on /net type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2383,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/windows-c type ntfs (ro,umask=0200)
/dev/sda5 on /mnt/windows-d type ntfs (ro,umask=0200)
---
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jul  7 22:43 /

As you can see, /usr/local is not there. The two windows partitions are there because I mounted them manually - simply by doing, as root, mount /mnt/windows-c
And the same goes for /usr/local - it mounts and is functional if mounted manually.

I have found nothing of relevance in /var/log/messages

Anyone with any clues as to why these paritions are not being mounted during boot?

TIA

Brian1 · #2 9th July 2006, 10:37 PM

This is one of the things that bugs me with the way Redhat clones handle the fstab file using LABELS. The file /etc/mtab contains the reference from LABELS to the true block device. If it was me I would rewrite /etc/fstab and change all LABELS to thier true mount point. Example:

Code:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
to
/dev/sdb8              /                       ext3    defaults        1 1

Now as far NTFS goes have you upgraded the kernel? If so you need to upgrade the NTFS rpm if using them. Features like NTFS support are kernel version specfic.

Brian1

MaegRil · #3 10th July 2006, 12:43 AM

I can give re-writing /etc/fstab ago - sometime later today. It can't hurt to try.

NTFS and kernel upgrading isn't the problem - as I can mount the NTFS partitions manually without loading modules or anything else. But since the NTFS partitions already use their true mount points, then I do wonder if re-writing /etc/fstab will help.
I use yum to update and my repositories are setup correctly so any upgrades and dependencies are automatically taken care of.

cat /proc/filesystems (NTFS is listed here)

Code:

nodev   sysfs
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   cpuset
nodev   binfmt_misc
nodev   debugfs
nodev   securityfs
nodev   sockfs
nodev   usbfs
nodev   pipefs
nodev   futexfs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   inotifyfs
nodev   eventpollfs
nodev   devpts
        ext2
nodev   ramfs
nodev   hugetlbfs
        iso9660
nodev   mqueue
        ext3
        ntfs
nodev   rpc_pipefs
nodev   nfs
nodev   nfs4
nodev   autofs

Jongi · #4 10th July 2006, 01:01 AM

I never have problems. But then agin I don't use LABEL=

With ntfs I have to ensure that I update from livna the ntfs packages after each kernel upgrade.

MaegRil · #5 10th July 2006, 07:39 PM

Well, I've re-writen /etc/fstab specifying block devices, as prescribed by Brian1.

But I don't know if it's made a difference yet.
Today when I powered on my machine it mounted all partitions correctly and are functioning as they should.
I guess I'll see if I have any problems in the future.

Something is obviously a bit flakey.

Thanks for the help - so far ....

Brian1 · #6 10th July 2006, 11:29 PM

Glad to see you have it working.

Brian1