Re: fstab problem

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

Rodney Richison wrote:
> Bill Marcum wrote:
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> > 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
> > > >
> > > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive
> > > >
> > > > But this in fstab does not work

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> I guess it doesn't exist at boot up..  ????

I don't think this came up in the thread, but does it show up in dmesg 
at all? It should theoritcally show up a the same time as all the other 
disks.
> 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..   ??

so put a fsck in your script?
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