I am currently migrating a fiesty server from a really old piece of hardware to a newer piece of hardware. One of things that happens on boot is a windows share is mounted at /media/extra so that I can query the access db that is out there. On old server it works great.
On the new server - I can do it all manually great. Put the command in fstab, do a mount -a, create a shell script to run the mount -a. But when I put it in initr.d to do automagically at boot I get
And when I go and look at media the box hangs then shows me the listing of the directory but extra is all red an has question marks where the file perms should be.
So I umount it - which takes a while and gives me
but it works and there is my extra directory all ready to go. So I do a mount -a and bam! all is back to normal

Doesn't do this on the "old" server. Is it smb? Is it the directory?

Thoughts?

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Is the partition that contains /media/extra already mounted by the time it calls the smb mount. If not that explain why it can't find the mount point.

Good question. The problem has resolved itself - I don't know why - I was working on an error that apache was throwing on boot as well - an IP6 thing and once I had that solved I noticed the mount was going alright as well.

But even if /media/extra was already mounted and then the script kicked in (mount -a) why would that cause the issue? I can run mount -a over an over with no issue from the command line.