Hi, on my Debian GNU/Linux (sid) i have (among others) a partition which is mounted (normally at startup via /etc/fstab) on /home. But in a few cases (say six in the last months) /home silently isn't mounted. Since then I have "debug" as option in /etc/fstab. In this cases I log in as root and do a mount -a which works with a few diagnostic messages (see below). Today it didn't work the first time, but the second. I checked the drive (IBM IC35L040AVER07-0) several hours with IBMs "Drive fitness test" v. 3.01 but notwendig problem occured. Any ideas what's happening here? root@pit:~# mount -a kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002, bs=4096, gc=18, bpg=32768, ipg=15872, mo=0808] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. root@pit:~# root@pit:~# mount -a kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002, bs=4096, gc=18, bpg=32768, ipg=15872, mo=0808] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. 17. July 2002: root@pit:~# mount -a kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002, bs=4096, gc=18, bpg=32768, ipg=15872, mo=0808] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. 21. July 2002 root@pit:~# mount -a kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002, bs=4096, gc=18, bpg=32768, ipg=15872, mo=0808] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. 24. July 2002: root@pit:~# mount -a mount: special device LABEL=f-home does not exist root@pit:~# mount -a kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002, bs=4096, gc=18, bpg=32768, ipg=15872, mo=0808] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Ciao, Gregor -- "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -- William Gibson
