On Wednesday 14 May 2014 22:29:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I have this weird problem where a filesystem (Ext4) refuses to mount
> automatically after something like a power loss or forced shutdown.
>
> The fstab entry for it is:
>
> LABEL=Data /mnt/Data ext4 defaults,relatime,exec 0 2
>
> During boot, this is what OpenRC tells me:
>
> Root: clean, 805088/6553600 files, 9129899/26214400 blocks
> Data: recovering journal
> Data: clean, 364344/61546496 files, 137312260/246156800 blocks [ ok ]
> * Mounting local filesystems ... [ ok ]
> * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [ ok ]
> * Remounting filesystems ... [ ok ]
> * Updating /etc/mtab ... [ ok ]
>
> If I reboot the system again, then all works fine and the FS is mounted
> automatically. So this is a one-time thingy, happening only on the first
> boot after an unclean power-off.
>
> It would seem that I've stumbled across an OpenRC bug? There's no errors
> anywhere to be seem. According to the log output above, everything
> should be fine. I suspect that the "recovering journal" step is what
> causes this, but I don't know why.
>
> Anyone else encountered this?
No, I can't say I have. I do occasionally have to use the reset button to
reboot (because the KDM shutdown process had hung), and the system just
restarts as Mick says.
This is my root fstab entry:
/dev/md5 / ext4 relatime 1 1
The other partitions are similar except for being mounted from /dev/md7.
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Regards
Peter
