[NTLUG:Discuss] hard drive madness |SOLUTION

[Monty Shinn]

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> I discoverd a file I had missed before.. /etc/mtab
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> After editing that, I rebooted with the new drive in the system and it 
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Interesting - I always thought that mtab was a table of mounted 
filesystems that got populated at boot, not a table of filesystems to 
mount at boot.

For instance, if I unmount my nfs mounts, they are removed from mtab. 
Remounting the nfs mounts causes them to be listed in mtab again. 
Indeed, when I have had stale nfs mounts, I have just deleted the entry 
in mtab, then remounted.

 >>man mtab<< returned nothing - literally.

Is mtab used differently across distros?  I'm running Fedora.  Centos 
appears to act the same, which would be expected.

Any thoughts, anyone?

Thanks,

Monty