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Re: mount weirdness



On Tue 06 Aug 2019 at 12:18:21 (-0500), Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 10:30 AM:
> > Dennis Wicks wrote:
> > > I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1
> > > but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point.
> > 
> > So what do you get from these shell commands ?
> I am currently running with "ln -s /wa11 /wa1" so this isn't the
> config I booted with. Anyway;
> > 
> >    ls -ld /wa1 /wa11
> 
> wix@dgwicks:~$ ls -ld /wa1 /wa11
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    4 Aug  1 17:40 /wa1 -> wa11
> drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa11
> wix@dgwicks:~$
> 
> > 
> >    find /wa1
> 
> wix@dgwicks:~$ cd /
> wix@dgwicks:/$ find /wa1
> /wa1
> wix@dgwicks:/$ lg wa1
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     4 Aug  1 17:40 wa1 -> wa11/
> drwxrwxrwx  17 root root  4.0K Jun 17 14:07 wa11/
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     7 Aug  1 17:43 www -> wa1/www/
> wix@dgwicks:/$
> 
> > 
> > What happens if you create a new /wa1 ?
> > 
> >    mv /wa1 /wa1_old
> >    mkdir /wa1
> >    mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1
> > 
> 
> Same failure. One of the many things I tried to get the mount on /wa1
> to work, without any success.

Shouldn't that fail with:

~# mkdir /wa1
~# mount /dev/sda4 /wa1
mount: /dev/sda4 is already mounted or /wa1 busy
       /dev/sda4 is already mounted on /ya
~# 

> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > As for your fstab, there is this "x-systemd.device-timeout=20" where
> > all others have "=60". But the web says this is for automounting.
> 
> This param is to stop the boot process from stopping because all of
> the mounts have failed, temporarily. A previous thread from a few
> weeks(?) back.
> > 
> > I fail to imagine any explanation for the symptoms you report. Especially
> > the silent failure riddles me.

Unfortunately there's too much reported speech in this thread,
and not enough direct speech. Some timely copy/paste might help.

> Me too! Happens during boot and when done manually!

Cheers,
David.


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