Hi all,

I have a question regarding filesystem mounting.

I have one Sun box(V240) and a NAS on a network. Sun machine shows the following output of df -k command.
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0 11094316 8509226 2474147 78% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/md/dsk/d5 6053358 1314132 4678693 22% /var
swap 2919352 184 2919168 1% /var/run
swap 3087456 168288 2919168 6% /tmp
/dev/md/dsk/d63 3082223 1973362 1047217 66% /space/tc50
bilchnas01:/vol/cf 11550720 8561684 2989036 75% /cf
bilchnas01:/vol/rs1 3145728 2396276 749452 77% /rs1
bilchnas01:/vol/telco
5242880 4576976 665904 88% /telco
bilchnas01:/vol/edm 104857600 100912144 3945456 97% /home/edm
bilchnas01:/vol/edm_a
54525952 37129936 17396016 69% /home/edm_a
bilchnas01:/vol/edm_p
146800640 143246368 3554272 98% /home/edm_p
bilchnas01:/vol/catadm_flex
1052672 138736 913936 14% /home/catadm_flex

#

And the vfstab is like this

#cat /etc/vfstab
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
#
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
#/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/md/dsk/d1 - - swap - no -
/dev/md/dsk/d0 /dev/md/rdsk/d0 / ufs 1 no logging
/dev/md/dsk/d5 /dev/md/rdsk/d5 /var ufs 1 no logging
#/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5 /var ufs 1 no l
ogging
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
#
# Spare space
#
#/dev/md/dsk/d60 /dev/md/rdsk/d60 /telco ufs 3 yes -
#/dev/md/dsk/d61 /dev/md/rdsk/d61 /rs1 ufs 3 yes -
#/dev/md/dsk/d62 /dev/md/rdsk/d62 /cf ufs 3 yes -
/dev/md/dsk/d63 /dev/md/rdsk/d63 /mti ufs 3 yes -
#/dev/md/dsk/d64 /dev/md/rdsk/d64 /home/edm ufs 3 y
es -
#/dev/md/dsk/d65 /dev/md/rdsk/d65 /home/edm_p ufs 3 y
es -
#/dev/md/dsk/d66 /dev/md/rdsk/d66 /home/edm_a ufs 3 y
es -
#/dev/md/dsk/d67 /dev/md/rdsk/d67 /home/catadm_flex ufs 3
yes -
#bilchfas01:/vol/rs1 - /rs1 ufs 3 yes -
#bilchnas01:/vol/edm - /home/edm nfs - yes -

The mnttab file is like this-

# cat /etc/mnttab
/dev/md/dsk/d0 / ufs rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,suid,dev=1540000 1195318568
/proc /proc proc dev=4bc0000 1195318567
mnttab /etc/mnttab mntfs dev=4c80000 1195318567
fd /dev/fd fd rw,suid,dev=4cc0000 1195318568
/dev/md/dsk/d5 /var ufs rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,suid,dev=1540005 1195318568
swap /var/run tmpfs xattr,dev=1 1195318568
swap /tmp tmpfs xattr,dev=2 1195318569
/dev/md/dsk/d63 /space/tc50 ufs rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,suid,dev=154003f 1195318570
-hosts /net autofs indirect,nosuid,ignore,nobrowse,dev=4e40001 1195318577
-xfn /xfn autofs indirect,ignore,dev=4e40002 1195318577
bilchnas01:/vol/cf /cf nfs rw,xattr,dev=4e00001 1195318592
bilchnas01:/vol/rs1 /rs1 nfs rw,xattr,dev=4e00002 1195318593
bilchnas01:/vol/telco /telco nfs rw,xattr,dev=4e00003 1195318593
bilchnas01:/vol/edm /home/edm nfs rw,xattr,dev=4e00004 1195318593
bilchnas01:/vol/edm_a /home/edm_a nfs rw,xattr,dev=4e00005 1195318593
bilchnas01:/vol/edm_p /home/edm_p nfs rw,xattr,dev=4e00006 1195318593
bilchnas01:/vol/catadm_flex /home/catadm_flex nfs rw,xattr,dev=4e00007 1195318593
bilchso01:vold(pid771) /vol nfs ignore,noquota,dev=4e00008 1195318595
#

You will find the entries of the filesystems from NAS box is commented in vfstab. Then also it is mounting that all filesystems whenever I reboot the Sunbox.

How that commented entries are going in /etc/mnttab?

Thanks in anticipation...

Perhaps the kind person who set up automounter added in commented entries to vfstab to let you see what they had done.

I concur! Always leave a bread trail when doing changes like this--I'm sure that is all these comments are