New eyes please

[Karl Larsen]

Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 11:59pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 (UK time), Karl Larsen scrawled:
>
>   
>>    I am rewriting files and they have gone well but I have a problem. 
>> Here is my fstab file that almost works fine:
>>
>> # Start
>> /dev/hdb5               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
>> /dev/hdb7               /fc4                    ext3    noauto, user    0 0
>> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
>> /dev/hda2               none                    swap    defaults        0 0
>> /dev/hdb3               none                    swap    defaults        0 0
>> # End
>>
>> The problem is the second line which should let user mount /dev/hdb7 on 
>> /fc4 but it will not work. Here is what I get when I try it:
>>
>> [karl at k5d ~]$ mount /fc4
>> [mntent]: line 3 in /etc/fstab is bad
>> mount: can't find /fc4 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>> [karl at k5d ~]$
>>
>> There is a lot of information there. Alas it isn't helping me. Line 3 
>> worked fine on Red Hat 9 and should here I think. If you see my folly 
>> please let me know.
>>     
>
> The options should only be separated by a comma, not a comma and space.
>
> So:
> 	/dev/hdb7               /fc4           ext3    noauto, user 0 0
> should be:
> 	/dev/hdb7               /fc4           ext3    noauto,user 0 0
>
> Steve
>
>   
Hi Steve you are exactly right! Now it works fine :-)

Little errors are sure hard to find.

Karl