Fstab rewinds

mebrelith · 03-19-2005, 08:13 PM

Hi folks, heres the trouble. I just reinstalled FC3 on my home box. One of the first things I did after updating everything was adding my second HD which has my music collection. To do this I added the following line into fstab:

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0

Now, this line works peachy, nothing wrong with it. The problem is that now from time to time for some reason the line vanishes from fstab and I have to write it again.

Any ideas as to what could be happening here?

All replies shall be deeply appreciated.

gabriele_101 · 03-19-2005, 09:00 PM

Something is overwriting it, but I would not be able to suggest anything without knowing more about what is funning on your server. That being said, I've found similar items by simply setting the file to read-only even for root, then rebooting. I caught a culprit as it reported an error in the boot log, but that was a long time ago on AIX, but it might be worth a try.

Good luck.

-Gabriele

cylix · 03-19-2005, 09:03 PM

I've run into this a few times, but not lately.

It's going to be in one of two areas.

fstab-sync or updfstab

I wish I could reproduce it, but fstab has been fine lately.

Worse comes to worse, you could always remove the write bit until some error tells you what the problem is.

mebrelith · 03-19-2005, 11:40 PM

Hi guys, thanx for replying. Just notice it happen. I rebooted my machine and right after loading hardware,audio I notice this message:

{mtnent} theres no new line at end of fstab

Or somethinglike this.
When logged in I check my file browser and I can see the hdb1 is mounted, I can access files. Then I check fstab and I notice that the line is gone. No more mounting of hdb1.

Any new ideas?

gabriele_101 · 03-20-2005, 08:31 AM

Shy of suggesting that you add a few extra lines at the end of your fstab, I don't have much to add.

I was unable to find anything on "mtnent" on Google. Sorry.

mebrelith · 03-20-2005, 09:11 AM

Hrmm.. my apologies, is mntent. My bad.

gabriele_101 · 03-20-2005, 10:11 AM

Googling, I found this:

http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford...d/T23_FC1.html

Quote:

To stop the fstab from being overwritten by system utilities that think they know what I need better than I do,

> chkconfig kudzu off

Might work, but it turns kudzu off completely.

-Gabriele

EdR · 04-04-2005, 07:47 AM

I have the same problem with with the host file on my nis master. I just set it to read only after I make changes but I also keep a back up copy of the file just in case.

mebrelith · 04-04-2005, 02:42 PM

I discovered something funny. The error regarding mntent is incredibly simple to fix.
The error message is: theres no new line at end of fstab. Or something like this.
How did I fix it?
Simple, I added a blank new line at the bottom of fstab (moohoohaha).