Re: ext3 not mounting (ghost mounts created)

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

Thedore Knab(tjk@annapolislinux.org) is reported to have said:
> What did I do wrong to prevent the proper mounting of multiple /var/*
> directories ?
> 
> How can I prevent ghost mounts from occurring in the future ?
> 
<--snip-->

> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>
> # <dump>  <pass>
> /dev/hda2       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro
> 0       1
> /dev/hda3       none            swap    sw                      0
> 0
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults
> 0       0
> #/dev/fd0       /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto
> 0       0
> #/dev/cdrom     /cdrom          iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto
> 0       0
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw                 0       2
> /dev/hda5 /home ext3 rw                 0       2
> /dev/hda6 /var/log ext3 rw                      0       2
> #source for idea
> #http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/ext3.shtml
> /dev/hda8 /var/spool ext3 rw,data=journal,noatime 0       2
> /dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw                  0       2
> /dev/hda9 /usr ext3 rw                  0       2

Mount /var 'before' you mount /var/log & /var/spool
ie:
/dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw                  0       2
/dev/hda6 /var/log ext3 rw                      0       2
/dev/hda8 /var/spool ext3 rw,data=journal,noatime 0       2

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)


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