Re: /home not mounting during bootup (stable, ppc)
Rich Stanton <stantonrj@Cf.ac.uk> writes:
> I'm running debian stable (PPC) on an old mac G3. My /home partition is
> on an external SCSI drive, and is listed as follows in fstab:
>
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/sda1 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
> /dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
> However on bootup I get the following error when it tries to mount the
> home partition:
>
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
> e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>
> It gives me the option to continue anyway, which I do, and it then
> mounts fine and I can use the machine perfectly well. While playing
> around I changed the <pass> column value to 0 for /home and after that
> the error message went away on bootup, primarily because the drive is
> now not mounted atall at bootup. I see no mention of it atall with
> dmesg. However if, after booting, I run 'mount /home' it mounts
> perfectly. Anyone any ideas what's going on?
>
According to the fstab manpage, the 'pass' field should be 1 only for
the root filesystem and 2 for all others, so try changing that and see
if it helps.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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