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Re: mount weirdness



On 7/08/19 5:51 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Richard Hector wrote on 8/6/19 12:42 PM:
>> On 7/08/19 5:31 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>> rhkramer@gmail.com wrote on 8/6/19 10:34 AM:
>>>> I didn't fully understand your fstab, but is there a typo -- wa11 vs.
>>>> wa1?
>>> No. My current config is;
>>>
>>>     /wa1 -> wa11 ( soft link )
>>>     /wa11        ( <- /dev/sdb2 )
>>>
>>> with sdb2 mounted on /wa11 so I don't have to find and change all the
>>> paths that I have starting with "/wa1/..."!
>>
>> So you're trying to mount on a symlink, instead of a directory? I don't
>> think that's going to work. Why not mount on /wa11, as you describe?
>>
>> Or does /wa11 only exist because you can't mount on /wa1, and you were
>    Exactly!!
>> trying to mount on /wa1 when /wa1 was a directory? In which case - it
>> would help to provide the requested files in the state where the problem
>> exists :-)
>    fstab says wa1 but I would have to reboot to get the
>    exact config back, and that takes over an hour!

In that case, I suspect the problem was (somehow) with the former
directory /wa1, which no longer exists so we can't inspect it.

And if that's the case, you'd probably find you can just recreate it,
and everything will work :-)

Richard

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