New eyes please

[Steve Searle]

Around 11:59pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 (UK time), Karl Larsen scrawled:

>    I am rewriting files and they have gone well but I have a problem. 
> Here is my fstab file that almost works fine:
> 
> # Start
> /dev/hdb5               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> /dev/hdb7               /fc4                    ext3    noauto, user    0 0
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda2               none                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdb3               none                    swap    defaults        0 0
> # End
> 
> The problem is the second line which should let user mount /dev/hdb7 on 
> /fc4 but it will not work. Here is what I get when I try it:
> 
> [karl at k5d ~]$ mount /fc4
> [mntent]: line 3 in /etc/fstab is bad
> mount: can't find /fc4 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> [karl at k5d ~]$
> 
> There is a lot of information there. Alas it isn't helping me. Line 3 
> worked fine on Red Hat 9 and should here I think. If you see my folly 
> please let me know.

The options should only be separated by a comma, not a comma and space.

So:
	/dev/hdb7               /fc4           ext3    noauto, user 0 0
should be:
	/dev/hdb7               /fc4           ext3    noauto,user 0 0

Steve

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