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Re: mount weirdness



On Wed 07 Aug 2019 at 12:44:39 (-0500), Dennis Wicks wrote:
> David Wright wrote on 8/6/19 1:48 PM:
> > 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
> > ~#
> 
> No, it won't fail because the first mount to /wa1 did not succeed!

No, but your sdb2 is already mounted (on /wa11):

sdb
├─sdb1 xfs      PubDtaMaster 4283d59b-8e0b-4f6a-ad33-47dff4e2198c   32.7G    86% /edrv
└─sdb2 xfs      Work-Area-1  20173008-eeaa-41cd-b862-f7d0b871895d  241.9G    65% /wa11

> And
> the system does not object or give an error when you mount the same
> partition on two diff dirs anyway!

Mine does: I just posted it.

> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > 
> > > > 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.

And, once again, you post *reports* of what is supposed to have happened.

BTW what is lg?

Cheers,
David.


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