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rgeo

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Registered: 2009-03-23

Posts: 2

vfat partition mount issue [Solved]

I have two fat32 partitions (/dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6) that I cannot seem to mount automatically on bootup

The error given is "mount point does not exist"
However the directories that they mount into do exist - running "mount /dev/sda5" works fine once I am logged in
This mounts them into the correct folders

my fstab is:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

#UUID=4708-CDB1 /mnt/documents vfat defaults 0 0
#UUID=486B-CDCA /mnt/media vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /home/media vfat user,rw,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home/documents vfat user,rw,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda11 /usr ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=6adfcc0e-6b08-49aa-9e75-234f45695ca3 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=6e604f97-451c-45ed-b761-75242e4df880 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=b76b2dfe-a561-4e15-8209-cc3e56b2087e / ext4 defaults 0 1

The three file system checks happen ok, but then the errors appear about the non-existant mount points
As you can see from my fstab I have tried mounting them into /mnt/documents etc as well, which also returns the errors

I would be prefer a nice clean fix but would be happy with a script that ran on login etc to run "mount /dev/sda5" but dont know how to do that or where to put it

Thanks
Richard

Last edited by rgeo (2009-03-23 15:51:17)

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: vfat partition mount issue [Solved]

rgeo,

probably /home is not yet mounted when the system trys to mount /dev/sda5.

I suppose that mounting order in /etc/fstab matters, even though I am not sure.

That would not explain why mounting in /mnt failed, if the directory documents existed.

You can always put the line 'mount /dev/sda5' on /etc/rc.local that gets executed before login.

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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: vfat partition mount issue [Solved]

the mounts to /mnt are commented out - and yes Mektub is right, /home is not mounted yet when you attempt to mount /home/{media,documents}.

Just move sda5 and sda6 to the end of your fstab and you should be allright.

rgeo

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Registered: 2009-03-23

Posts: 2

Re: vfat partition mount issue [Solved]

Cheers guys that worked great
I had tried moving them below the /home mounting line but that hadnt worked either - and then had assumed that the mounting happened from the bottom because of the order of file system checking - / was checked first then /usr and /home

ps how do I set the thread to be solved?
Thanks again