Thanks Steve and Matthew, but I had tried that before (taking notail out) my fstab now is as below but the problem is still here:-
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/sda3 / reiserfs notail,noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 none wap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso966 noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/share ext3 noatime,umask=000 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/bak reiserfs notail,noatime 0 1 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:20, Steve Holdoway wrote: > [snip] > > > man mke2fs might help. notail is a reiser option, Didn't take long to > > find the reason once the requested info arrived (: > > ... well it might, but man mount, using the ext2/ext3 sections might > help more. Brain in neutral again. > > Steve > > > Steve -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) www.fisher.net.nz Peter Griffin: At least they don't put their feminine ointments next to the mustard, Lois. That was the worst hot dog I ever ate.
