Re: fstab problem

[Rodney Richison <rodney@rcrcomputing.com>]

Bill Marcum wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
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>>Rodney Richison wrote:
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>>>Can any tell me why this works manually
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>>>mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive
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>>>But this in fstab does not work
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>>>/dev/hdc1         /mnt/idedrive          ext2    defaults     1 1
>>>or this
>>>/dev/hdc1         /mnt/idedrive          ext2    defaults     0 0
>>>or this
>>>/dev/hdc1         /mnt/idedrive          ext2    defaults     1 2
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>>A bit more info. This is debian sarge. No gui.
>>I chmod 777 /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and it finally mounted with mount -a
>>I then rebooted to make sure would mount.
>>It did not. And would not with mount -a
>>I then chmod /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and mount -a then would mount the drive.
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>Do the permissions of /mnt/idedrive (when hdc1 is unmounted) change?
>Is it possible that /dev/hdc1 does not exist at the time during bootup 
>that drives are mounted?
>Are you sure that /dev/hdc1 has an ext2 file system?
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I guess it doesn't exist at boot up..  ????
It now works reliably with mount -a so I finally put a startup script
with nothing but mount -a in it.

Course, the problem with that is I can't let the system do a fsck on it
at boot up because the machine does't seem to see the drive util
later..   ??