On Wednesday 09 December 2009 18:59:19 Bill Davidsen wrote: > David wrote: > > During boot I want to mount an iso9660 file as a loop device. The iso > > file is on a ext3 partition labelled HUGE_01 which is mounted at > > /mnt/huge. > > > > FILE = /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso > > MOUNTPOINT = /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD. > > > > The mount succeeds. However during boot I get this unnecessary failure > > message: > > > > Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] > > [snip] > > Mounting other filesystems: mount: according to mtab > > /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso is already > > mounted on /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD as loop [ FAILED ] The proper question is why do you mount it twice? If it should be automatically mounted at boot, the fstab entry should be enough. However, it seems that you or the system is trying to mount it again later during boot. You need to locate where in the boot process is this happening. What messages are between the two tries? IOW, what is in the [snip] part? > > [f12@kablamm ~]$ cat /etc/fstab > > LABEL=kablamm_C / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > LABEL=kablamm_Z /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 > > LABEL=BIG_01 /mnt/big ext3 defaults 1 2 > > LABEL=HUGE_01 /mnt/huge ext3 defaults 1 2 > > LABEL=kablamm_H /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > > LABEL=kablamm_S swap swap defaults 0 0 > > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 > > 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > > 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults > > 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults > > 0 0 > > /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/Fedora-1 > >2-i386-DVD iso9660 loop,ro,gid=share 0 0 This looks ok. If you cannot find the place where the second mount is being attempted, maybe adding the "noauto" option along with "loop,ro,gid=share" might help --- the DVD will not get mounted on the first try, so maybe this can be a workaround. > There's a secret way to do this, called "man fstab." Those numbers at the > end of the line are not random, they control the mounting order. This is completely wrong. Those numbers have nothing to do with mount order. Bill, you are the one who needs to read man fstab, not the OP. ;-) HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
