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Re: Mounting local filesystem failed on boot



On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 17:40 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> i am getting Mounting local filesystem failed on every boot. and the
>> problem line in fstab is
>
>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>
> This can't be the cause. The line is correct.
>
>> what this proc mount is for. as i haven’t created it.
>
> "The proc file system is a pseudo-file system which is used as an
> interface to kernel data structures. It is commonly mounted at /proc." -
> http://linux.die.net/man/5/proc
>
> There's an entry in fstab, when /proc is NOT on it's own partition.
> You also can try
>
>
> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0

ok, after changing it, still facing the same error. however my system
is running formal. beside from this failed error.

>
>
> "dev / nodev
>    Interpret/do not interpret block special devices on the filesystem.
> exec / noexec
>    exec lets you execute binaries that are on that partition, whereas
> noexec does not let you do that. noexec might be useful for a partition
> that contains no binaries, like /var, or contains binaries you do not
> want to execute on your system, or that cannot even be executed on your
> system. Last might be the case of a Windows partition.
> suid / nosuid
>    Permit/Block the operation of suid, and sgid bits." -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab
>
> Perhaps this prevents against something fishy.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
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