(FC6) mounting local filesystems.......................failed!

[eshneto]

Sorry for creating a new post, but I cannot find an answer for this which seems to be an easy problem.

I have a fat32 partition and created a corresponding entry in /etc/fstab to be mounted at /home/windows, directory, which does exist. In fact, I have asked to the installation program to do it (now I guess I should have done it by hand).

When booting the system with tyhis new entry, I get the message in the title and, afterwards, a complain about the partition being write-protected, but failing to mount it read only.

The main point is that when I use mount -a or something like mount -tvfat /dev/sda1 /home/windows, it jusk works perfectly well !

It used to work just fine with FC4, as it should, I guess.

[Seve]

Originally Posted by eshneto

Sorry for creating a new post, but I cannot find an answer for this which seems to be an easy problem.

I have a fat32 partition and created a corresponding entry in /etc/fstab to be mounted at /home/windows, directory, which does exist. In fact, I have asked to the installation program to do it (now I guess I should have done it by hand).

When booting the system with tyhis new entry, I get the message in the title and, afterwards, a complain about the partition being write-protected, but failing to mount it read only.

The main point is that when I use mount -a or something like mount -tvfat /dev/sda1 /home/windows, it jusk works perfectly well !

It used to work just fine with FC4, as it should, I guess.

Hello:
Your issue is most likely related to SELinux being enabled.
I don't think it existed in FC4
From FC5 forward SELinux in the enabled mode
is very protective of your /home and is blocking the mount at boot time.
So, you have some options:
Change your mount point to something other than your /home
Set SELinux to permissive
Set SELinux to disabled
or modify the SELinux settings / rules to allow the mount to take place.

Seve

[eshneto]

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
Your issue is most likely related to SELinux being enabled.
I don't think it existed in FC4
From FC5 forward SELinux in the enabled mode
is very protective of your /home and is blocking the mount at boot time.
So, you have some options:
Change your mount point to something other than your /home
Set SELinux to permissive
Set SELinux to disabled
or modify the SELinux settings / rules to allow the mount to take place.

Seve

Thanks for your hint.

For sure it was SELinux. I have checked the option "allow_mount_anyfile" under the SELinux tab (expand the "others" item) of the system-config-securitylevel script and it worked.

I gues it would be much more clean if I used the option "-o context=" with the correct context, whatever it means, in fstab. That is what I saw in a FAQ about SELinux. Great, but there is no answer for a question like: what are the possible contexts?

Could you answer that? If you could at least point me to some straightforward guide to SELinux without being to technical, I would appreciate. I just don't want to spend lots of time reading technical articles for such a banality.