[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#524094: Info received (Bug#524094: Acknowledgement (base: Sometimes usb disk fails to mount on boot))

[Dr. Alex Sheppard]

After digging around in the scripts in /etc/init.d i found this in 
mountall.sh:


        #
        # Mount local file systems in /etc/fstab.
        #
        mount_all_local() {
            mount -a -t 
nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs,gfs2 -O no_netdev
         }


Now that function is supposed to mount all local filesystems?? But it 
will only mount the ones of the specified types, and the list omits 
common types like ext2 and ext3 (my problem partitions being ext3).

So i modified that section to look like this:

        #
        # Mount local file systems in /etc/fstab.
        #
        mount_all_local() {
            mount -a -O no_netdev
        }

... and my problem is solved.


Am i overlooking something here - is there a downside to my fix?? I 
don't understand why the filesystem types were explicitly listed in the 
first place??


Alex





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