Re: [SLUG] fstab

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sun Apr 11 2004 - 11:01:02 EDT


> No Joy? I entered the following line in fstab
>
> /dev/hdc1 /backup vfat defaults 1 2
>
> When i tried to reboot I got the following message
>
> Warning...fsck for device /dev/hdc1 exited with signal 11
>
> The drive is removeable so I just shut down, removed it and rebooted and
> am back to normal (square one) any suggestions?? Thanks

You also need to make sure that a filesystem is available on the
partition. So the complete steps would be:

1) Add the lines to the /etc/fstab

2) As root:
    mke2fs /dev/hdc1

   (This will destroy any information on the disk)

3) Do a test mount:

   mkdir /backup (if this doesn't already exist)
   mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /backup

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