Referencing my last post from friday about not being able to mount a reiser FS.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=368494

I changed the fs type to ext3 and copied the data over.

I updated my fstab to read:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 3
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

The /home slice is the one that will not mount on boot.

After boot does typing just "mount /home" make it mount successfully? If not how are you manually mounting?

If it is not mounting at all (boot or manually) have you tried running fsck on it to make sure it is OK?

By changing to "ext3" do you mean you just changed it in fstab or you did some conversion? Did you try running a newfs on it after you made it ext3? (Don't do this without saving your data first.)

I can mount it manually after boot by typing:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /home

And that works fine just fine.

I didn't actually "CONVERT" anything.

I fdisk'd the existing /dev/hda4 and split it into /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6.

making /dev/hda6 ext3 then copying the data from another drive where I had backed it up before the process.

I just can't get /home to mount at boot time.

I've also noticed an error at boot time and I am not sure if this is related.

LABEL=/boot duplicate - not mounted

The reason I asked how you mount it manually is because you can save yourself some time.

The mount you're doing is ignoring fstab because you're specifying all the options.

If the fstab entry is correct then simply typing "mount /home" would work. If it doesn't then your issue is the fstab entry so you can ignore boot stuff for the moment and focus on that. Once you've got it to succeed with just "mount /home" then you can do a test boot to see if it mounts automatically as it should.

As to your message it suggests to me that you have two slices labeled as boot. Did you by any chance label /dev/hda6 or /devv/hda5 as "boot" (or even "boot duplicate")? What if you try putting a new label on them? You don't have to use it in fstab - just maybe putting a new one them will overwrite accidental label as "boot".

I rebooted to try your recommendations and the machine will not come up all the way.

I echoes over and over about can't move files and can't write files because it's a read only file system...

/var/log/filename...
/var/log/filename...
/var/log/filename...

I don't get it!

ok. Forget everything.

I had the drives set to cable select and that DOES NOT WORK.

I removed the other drive and changed the jumper setting to "MASTER"

Lo and behold /home mounts at boot and all woes are gone!

Thank you tremendously for all the help and Good day!