Dear Managers,
I have a non-urgent but very strange problem: one of the lines in
/etc/fstab seems to be invisible to the mount command! This NFS file
system consistently fails to get mounted at boot-time (but no error
messages) and it does not get mounted if you type 'mount -vat nfs'. Nor
does it get mounted if you mount it by name unless you use the full
version of the mount command with all parameters supplied. To my eye the
line has exactly the same format as the ones on either side, and they work
fine. I'm running Tru64 4.0G with PK3 (though same thing happened with
PK2).
Here is some evidence:
platon# grep ras/CS /etc/fstab
pythagoras:/CS /rmt/pythagoras/CS nfs nodev,nosuid,bg,intr 0 0
platon# mount -vat nfs
sartre on /rmt/sartre/staff: Device busy
sartre on /rmt/sartre/pgrads: Device busy
sartre on /rmt/sartre/aspect: Device busy
sartre on /rmt/sartre/neurocolt: Device busy
sartre on /rmt/sartre/neurowork: Device busy
sartre on /rmt/sartre/life: Device busy
pythagoras on /rmt/pythagoras/ugrads: Device busy
pythagoras on /rmt/pythagoras/apps: Device busy
engels on /rmt/engels/data: Device busy
[ Note: no messages for /rmt/pythagoras/CS. Other file systems were
already mounted ]
platon# mount pythagoras:/CS
mount: unknown special file or file system pythagoras:/CS.
platon# mount /rmt/pythagoras/CS
mount: unknown special file or file system /rmt/pythagoras/CS.
platon# mount -t nfs -o nodev,nosuid,bg,intr pythagoras:/CS /rmt/pythagoras/CS
platon# [ Hoorah, this worked ! ]
There are no carriage returns or other unprintable characters (apart from
tabs) in /etc/fstab, and there is a newline at the end. Here is an octal
dump of the line concerned:
platon$ grep as/CS /etc/fstab | od -c
0000000 p y t h a g o r a s : / C S
0000020 / r m t / p y t
0000040 h a g o r a s / C S n f s
0000060 n o d e v , n o s u i d , b g
0000100 , i n t r 0 0 \n
0000112
Am I doing something really stupid here or is this a bug?
Bob
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Bob Vickers R.Vickers_at_cs.rhul.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
WWW:
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv
Phone: +44 1784 443691
Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 09:51:09 NZDT