Re: Problem with mtab?

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

This is what I have in my /etc/init.d/boot, version
   @(#)boot  2.10  26-Apr-1997  miquels@cistron.nl

[cut]
  #
  # Remount rootfs rw (default), but do not try to change mtab because it
  # is on a ro fs until the remount succeeded.  Then clean up old mtabs and
  # finally write the new mtab. 
  #
  mount -n -o remount,rw /
  rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin
  : > /etc/mtab
  mount -o remount,rw /
  mount /proc
[cut]

So according to this, /etc/init.d/boot should take care of removing /etc/mtab~ 
during the boot.

The /etc/init.d/boot file I have comes with sysvinit version 2.71-2 that was 
installed with Debian 1.3.

// Heikki

Sylvain Briole <sbriole@nathalie.eclice.org> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> 
> I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29.
> I have three partitions on my hard disk :
> 
> /dev/hda1 : linux
> /dev/hda2 : linux swap
> /dev/hda3 : ms-dos 6.22
> 
> And I have a problem with the mount command :
> 
> nathalie# mount /hda3/
> can't lock lock file /etc/mtab~: timed out
> 
> So, I delete /etc/mtab~ and it runs.
> But, I have to delete this mtab~ at each boot.
> I have three computer running Debian, and it is the only one with this
> problem.
> 
> Any idea?


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