Filesystems Not Mounting

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 16:39 -0500, 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:
>          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).
>          I then entered 'sudo mount -a'; and received many messages
> stating
>          that there are missing mount points.
>          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 hope this clarifies my situation. 

Things are getting confusing. Returning to a previous comment 
mounting a file-system does not add anything to fstab. mount -a mounts
those entries in the fstab. Show us a fstab file with duplicate entries.



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