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From: Theodore Rodriguez-Bell [mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 4:41 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?
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/etc/fstab gets read only when the mount command is run
does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?
For mounting network filesystems this can be true... but for a local disk
(which I'm pretty sure is the case here) - you are either put into a recovery
shell or it won't come up at all and you have to recover by other means.
Depends on what the error in your
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-Original Message-
From: Scott Rohling [mailto:scott.rohl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry
I recently had a typo in fstab for a new file system I tried to add and my
system would not come back up. Thanks to everybody for helping me out and
getting my system back without a major recovery effort.
Any reason why zLinux dies when it finds a bad entry in fstab even though the
filesystem
If /etc/fstab has markers which say this is important, then it dies.
That is common for Unix/Linux/POSIX.
Specifically, if you have the troubled FS set to be checked (last
column something other than 0), and the check fails, the system will
fall back to maint mode. Filesystems which fail to
This might be influenced by those numbers at the end of the fstab entry..
The last one indicates whether fsck should be run against it. If yours is
0, then that should prevent Linux from requiring it there.
I'm not sure how badly you mucked up the syntax though...As others have
said - use
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Subject: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?
I recently had a typo in fstab for a new file system I tried to add and my
system would not come back up. Thanks to everybody for helping me out and
getting my system back without a major recovery effort.
Any reason why zLinux dies
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:21 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?
I recently had a typo in fstab for a new file system I tried to add and my
system would not come back up. Thanks to everybody
