Months ago I modified my etc/fstab file to account for a second harddrive. Got busy, never linked up the second drive to put a new /home directory onto.

But today I went to unmount my cdrom and got an error that stated there was and error in line 11 of the fstab. Not sure at this point if I simply left something incomplete or not. My fstab file is below.

If anyone could either tell me why it is improperly configured or where I can go find a proper configuration template.... I would appreciate it.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=7f8817ee-08e9-454c-b82f-4102d8f53e0a / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=791f399a-4b89-4587-aef9-a4dc64c5632b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /home ext3 defaults, errors=remount=rw 0 1

I think I remember that fstab needed a final carriage-return at the end of the last line.

Line 11. /dev/sdb2 /home ext3 defaults, errors=remount=rw 0 1

No space between options, just a comma.

Simon,

I haven't tried the your suggestion yet but I started poking around and found a mini fstab lesson in wikipedia. Based on that, would the following configuration be a better option? Also, two questions:
1. sdb2 doesn't have a UUID -- how do a get/make one? Is one necessary?
2. I want to put /home on sdb2, I noticed in the example on wikipedia that the dump/pass settings for the two drives (hda2 and hdb1) were 1 1 and 1 2 -- should mine be the same? Or would 0 1 and 0 2 work?


# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#Drives
# /dev/sda1
UUID=7f8817ee-08e9-454c-b82f-4102d8f53e0a / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb2 /home ext3 defaults, errors=remount=rw 0 2
#Media
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
#Proc
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
#Swap
# /dev/sda5
UUID=791f399a-4b89-4587-aef9-a4dc64c5632b none swap sw 0 0

a. man uuidgen, man tune2fs (see -U option)
b. no...

See discussion:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=326871

a. to dump or not to dump, that is the question. The Loan Ranger used to ponder this one.
b. yes

The fifth and sixth feilds are fs-freq and fs-passno.
fs-freq=0 just means there's no need to dump(8) it.

No. It contains the same error as before. Also, proc should be first. Then root, then swap.

The order of records in fstab is important...
-- FSTAB(5) Linux Programmer’s Manual

swap can be last, but it is tidier to put it before non-uuid entries.

You have a syntax error. Look at the man pages for the correct syntax for the errors options.