Beware the mount(8) program from hell !

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1 total messages Started by Alex Blakemore Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:57

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Author: Alex Blakemore
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:57

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Beware the Next mount(8) from hell !

It seems to have a limit on the number of spaces
allowed between fields - and doesn't tell you
about it except like "mount: / not found"

(this happens at the top of boot.rc and cost me days,
after adding a new disk - it never occurred to me that
multiple spaces would be significant in 1992)

############ bad /etc/fstab ############
/dev/sd0a               /              4.3 rw,noquota,noauto  0 1
/dev/sd1a               /External_Disk 4.3 rw,noquota         0 2

############ good /etc/fstab ############
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /External_Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

a few spaces are ok - I think its the ones before 4.3
that caused the problem.

in other cases it just silently fails with no diagnostic
whatsoever if for some reason it cant mount the device.
remounts cause multiple entries in /etc/mtab.

great program (:

always save a copy of /etc/fstab and dont line up
your local entries with the nfs entries.

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