[NTLUG:Discuss] hard drive madness |SOLUTION

[Stephen Davidson]

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Monty Shinn wrote:
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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 
>> came right up..
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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

I don't know about today, but I have had an /etc/mtab file get corrupted
in the past, and completely mess up subsequent boots until it was deleted.

Regards,
Steve

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