Strange mounting issue after interrupted update

ciembor · 2012-11-02 20:36:45

Few months ago I tried to upgrade system on my netbook. Unfortunately, battery wasn't charged enught. So... after I charged the battery and finished upgrade, someting strange happend to fstab / mtab / whatever. It's so strange, that I decided to record a cast:

http://ascii.io/a/1518

This is after system boot. My /dev/sda6 (home) isn't mounted... but it is in fstab and df.

http://ascii.io/a/1519

This is after few

mount /dev/sda6
reboot

I have no idea what's going on and how to fix it...

Last edited by ciembor (2012-11-02 20:37:42)

headkase · 2012-11-02 20:52:28

If you are mounting a partition and rebooting right after then the mount will not persists between reboots. Rebooting unmounts the partition. See:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

About creating a proper mount entry in your fstab file and then that will be mounted when you are booting up.

Edit: saw that you have /dev/sda6 in fstab: still check that page to check your options instead of just "rw" you may need different ones.

And, edit2: the file you show for the entry is /etc/mtab. The correct file to place mount entries is /etc/fstab.

Last edited by headkase (2012-11-02 20:55:38)

ciembor · 2012-11-02 20:55:20

But it is in fstab (and mtab too). And df shows redundant entries after few mount / reboot - don't know why.

Last edited by ciembor (2012-11-02 20:57:04)

headkase · 2012-11-02 20:56:57

Post your /etc/fstab file. Your above output shows mtab.

ciembor · 2012-11-02 21:03:39

http://ascii.io/a/1521

But as I told - it's in fstab (which was ok), in mtab (!) in df (!) but is not mounted...

ciembor · 2012-11-02 22:31:32

OK, may be I will ask another question - what should I try to reinstall? Or where should I look for related logs?

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Strange mounting issue after interrupted update

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