Mount usb drive with mount -a fails after f10 upgrade

[Joe W. Byers]

Joe W. Byers wrote:
> Happy New Year!
> 
> I recently upgraded a RHEL5 server to F10.  Yes there were many 
> headaches doing the upgrade.
> 
> I have one remaining problem that I can not fix.That is the usb drive 
> that I have in fstab will not mount when I issue the following command
> 
> mount -a
> 
> [root at financialseal media]# mount -a
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> My usb drive mounted fine using fstab with EL5.
> 
> I can mount the usbdrive using, all as root
> 
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sdc1 /media/usbdisk
> or
> mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/usbdisk
> 
> lsusb and lshal all see this device and see the file system (ext2). This 
> drive I want to mount to a specific location because I use it as a 
> scheduled backup device.
> 
> I have searched the web over the holidays and am at a dead end.  I do 
> not understand why this quite working after the upgrade.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you
> Joe
> 


I finally fixed the mount -a and automount problem.

My original entry in fstab was
/dev/scd1	/media/usbdisk	ext2	pamconsole,exec,auto,managed 0 0
this did not work so I changed it to
/dev/scd1	/media/usbdisk	ext2 
rw,user,sync,hotplug,exec,auto,managed 0 0

this still did not work, changed to
/dev/scd1	/media/usbdisk	auto	rw,user,exec,auto,managed,sync 0 0

NOW mount -a works.

Not sure what the real problem was with hotplug, pamconsole or the ext2.


thank you for all your comments.