feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

[dibl]

Re: feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

If you are going to do a new installation, which I agree should not be required but sometimes is the best way to go, I would offer this for consideration:

- put the root filesystem in a sdx0 partition, if you can, and set the "boot" flag on it
- using the Alternate Install CD, you can easily set the "/", "/home", and "swap" partitions, and the others will be automatically mounted on /media/sdxx mount points.
- the installation process will create a /etc/fstab file with the appropriate UUID and fs_passno values

You should come out with an /etc/fstab file that looks more like this (in form, if not content):

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=1991a076-aba8-4e5d-9db9-65be3b608f11 / xfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=4fe0930c-b56d-455f-b8be-504a214c9b31 /home xfs nouser,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=e731c3cf-e2ff-4692-8353-ede2a3dcb85e /media/sda1 xfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sdc2
UUID=a50bfecb-c48b-4f1e-bcf4-8597166eae6c /media/sdc2 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sdc3
UUID=003245d2-a1dc-4c1c-bc52-32601bc65e46 /media/sdc3 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sdc4
UUID=f98e6bb6-0ed4-45a8-b596-9ed76e2d2364 /media/sdc4 reiserfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sdd1
UUID=92c0453f-2a35-40d5-8013-b8870ed66127 /media/sdd1 xfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sdd2
UUID=f4e36b39-af7d-475c-8990-b2093f558295 /media/sdd2 xfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sdd3
UUID=eba33247-0dbb-482c-9351-81505a953864 /media/sdd3 xfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sde1
UUID=ae2cd406-8e2a-4581-b422-9337e6bb3bc7 /media/sde1 xfs nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sdc1
UUID=b132702a-c995-42d6-be8e-5b1444bea405 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

And then fsck should be happy with it.

[Snowhog]

Re: feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

Please also note that I had a typo - missing the additional 'U' in the UUID entry for /
I've corrected each of the posts.

[hbbk]

Re: feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

Thanks for all your hard tries guys but it fail again I used the following fstab (btw I didn't make the mistake forgotting the /proc entry

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>   <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

# hda IDE Master 20G (C:)
#/dev/hda2 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
UUID="83c97eaa-ebba-47db-9674-dc5d88d1885a" / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
#/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 1
UUID="2131-0C00" /media/hda1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 2
#/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
UUID="ef7e9d9f-9a64-40fa-8d76-d77781eeef8d" none swap sw 0 0

# hdb IDE Slave 180G (D:)
#/dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 1
UUID="2FA8-F95A" /media/hdb1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 2
#/dev/hdb2 /data2 ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
UUID="ea725ee0-a80d-41e1-b26f-83ec7039e6ca" /data2 ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2

# sda Sata 500G
#/dev/sda1 /home ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
UUID="340380e4-63d4-4547-9f38-6c486fd9c2e3" /home ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
#/dev/sda2 /data1 ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
UUID="8b248171-0fd8-4c1d-9ed8-20c333948137" /data1 ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2

# clubpocket USB
#/dev/clubpocket1 /data3 vfat auto,user,rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,gid=46,utf8,shortname=lower

But I'm now not really sure that fstab stuff is the problem, there should be something else, I could not believe that fstab became so fragile... or that such an upgrade broke something so basic so easily. I suspect something related with kernel modules should be the problem (just an intuition)

best

[Snowhog]

Re: feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

Glad that you caught that!

I'm not sure why you have the / partition options the way you do:

nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1

These are my / partition options:

defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

Try changing your / partition options to mine.

[dibl]

Re: feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

I'm suspicious of vfat filesystems -- I think they're kind of fragile. Is that what fsck is having trouble with?

[hbbk]

Re: feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

I finaly reinstalled from scratch and it works perfectly (except some few configurations changes).

For info the fstab generated is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# /dev/hda2
UUID=bf94c5ae-236e-4597-a959-67a641e8a206 /        ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro 0    1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=8b248171-0fd8-4c1d-9ed8-20c333948137 /data1     ext3  defaults    0    2
# /dev/hdb2
UUID=ea725ee0-a80d-41e1-b26f-83ec7039e6ca /data2     ext3  defaults    0    2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=340380e4-63d4-4547-9f38-6c486fd9c2e3 /home      ext3  defaults    0    2
# /dev/hda1
UUID=2131-0C00 /media/hda1   vfat  defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0    1
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=2FA8-F95A /media/hdb1   vfat  defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0    1
# /dev/hda3
UUID=ef7e9d9f-9a64-40fa-8d76-d77781eeef8d none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/hdd    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0    0
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy0 auto  rw,user,noauto,exec 0    0

I don't see any major differences between this one and the one that was there before (except the order) ... this confirm that the problem was an upgrade problem of the kernel...

thanks again for your help

[Snowhog]

Re: feisty>gutsy: could not mount disks anymore

Relook at post #17. The fstab you showed us has quotes (") around all the UUID= strings. That would have caused the problem!

Looking at my 01 January 2008, 11:51:58 post, where I provided the modified fstab, I see that I left in one single ":

UUID="83c97eaa-ebba-47db-9674-dc5d88d1885a / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1

All the other lines were correct. If my error on the line above was what caused you to include the quotes in your fstab, my appologies. It is my belief, that had you not had the quotes in the fstab file you used, you would not have had to reinstall. :P