SOLVED - Arch wants to mount /tmp3 but it is not in fstab

toad · 2010-08-23 17:51:25

Hi,

been away for five weeks and lost my desktop via ssh after a kernel update a few weeks back.

Now I'm home it tells me that it wants to mount /tmp3. Naturally it fails 'cos it doesn't exist in /etc/fstab.

Have I missed something while I was away? Some important piece of news that fstab is deprecated or somefink?

Tearing my hair out...

Last edited by toad (2010-08-23 20:52:02)

toad · 2010-08-23 19:39:05

Update:

blkid gave me a tmp3 readout on sdb11 which had existed previously but which I had mapped to tmp as I frequently ran out of space on my 10GB /.

So I adjusted my fstab to have sdb11 (well, the UUID) as tmp3 again and still the system threw up over it. Seems like I have to read up on man blkid as I don't understand what is happening.

EDIT:

I adjusted /etc/blkid.tab to reflect the new situation but still no joy. I then checked udev rules but there is no mention of sdb11 in connection with tmp3.

So the question remains:

Against which wall have I not banged my stupid head against to find the (obvious) answer???

Last edited by toad (2010-08-23 19:57:36)

toad · 2010-08-23 20:53:46

Bah,

all I had to do was an fsck.ext4 /dev/sdb11 and it booted just fine.

I am still not quite sure why it kept on referring to that partition as tmp3 as I could not find any reference to it but I will still mark it as solved.

Any enlightening comments are most welcome

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#1 2010-08-23 17:51:25

SOLVED - Arch wants to mount /tmp3 but it is not in fstab

#2 2010-08-23 19:39:05

Re: SOLVED - Arch wants to mount /tmp3 but it is not in fstab

#3 2010-08-23 20:53:46

Re: SOLVED - Arch wants to mount /tmp3 but it is not in fstab

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