Filesystems Not Mounting

[Karl Larsen]

Gene Poole wrote:
> Let me clarify:
>       At boot time when all of the entries in fstab are normally mounted,
>       the duplicates in the fstab are not mounted. The duplicate entries
>       are a result of the following:
>   
Stop! Right here put a copy of your /etc/fstab file.


>          As an example, I entered a 'ls -ltr /usr/oracle' and a single line
>          containing 0 was returned (it should have at least showed the
>          lost+found directory entry).
>   
    Your treating /usr/oracle as a directory but I think It might be a 
partition???
>          I then entered 'sudo mount -a'; and received many messages stating
>          that there are missing mount points.
>   
    Mount -a is to mount everything in fstab. But that is done normal 
during boot.


>          As an example I entered 'sudo mkdir -p /usr/oracle'
>          I then entered:  'sudo mount /dev/mapper/DBMSVG00-DBMSLV00
>          /usr/oracle' (from my fstab entry)
>          At this point is when I realized that there are now duplicate
>          entries in fstab, however, /usr/oracle is available and usable.
>
>   
    I have no idea how you got here. Please which system are you talking 
about and show us your /etc/fstab and your grub.conf files.

Karl

> I hope this clarifies my situation.
>
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole
> gene.poole at macys.com
>
> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI wrote:
>
>   
>>     I am not seeing what the problem is. You say IT all works fine on
>> FC6. But you tried both F7 and F8 and you were not able to mount some
>> file systems. Now where are these file systems now?
>>
>>      If they are on FC6 I should think you can cp -a from FC6 to F8 any
>> file system you want.
>>
>>     You are talking about /etc/fstab and it has NOTHING to do with file
>> systems. Fstab is used to connect whole partitions to a main part.
>>
>>     So please some details. Are you trying to move your Orical data base
>> directories to F8? That will not work. Orical has files all over the FC6
>> file system.
>>
>>     
>
>   


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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