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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers FSTAB Problem Post 302289008 by mojoman on Wednesday 18th of February 2009 02:37:13 PM
Old 02-18-2009
FSTAB Problem

Hello,

I transferred a machine from a tape back into a virtual machine. I created several paritions so I could xfter the date into them and made sda1 the active one. When I try and boot the VM it does not work. I used KNOPPIX to create the partitions and transfer the information from the tape drive.

I have made a partition active and it won't boot because of thefstab I suspect.bear in mind I am new to Linux/Unix.

I have the following fstab:

/ proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622
/dev/fd0 /media/fd0 auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto user,noauo,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/hdc auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0

#ADDED BY KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#ADDED BY KNOPPIX
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#ADDED BY KNOPPIX
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#ADDED BY KNOPPIX
/dev/sda7 /meda/sda7 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#ADDED BY KNOPPIX
/dev/sda8 /meda/sda8 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#ADDED BY KNOPPIX
/dev/sda9 /meda/sda9 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#ADDED BY KNOPPIX
/dev/sda10 /meda/sda10 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0

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I tried replacing the /media/(whatever) with the parition that I wanted like /boot but it did not work. I need the following drive paritions mounted as follows:

sda5 /
sda1 /boot
sda7 /home
sda8 /usr
sda10 /var
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Can someone suggest a fstab that will work?

Last edited by mojoman; 02-18-2009 at 03:56 PM..
 

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SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)			 systemd-machine-id-commit.service		      SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)

NAME
systemd-machine-id-commit.service - Commit a transient machine ID to disk SYNOPSIS
systemd-machine-id-commit.service DESCRIPTION
systemd-machine-id-commit.service is an early boot service responsible for committing transient /etc/machine-id files to a writable disk file system. See machine-id(5) for more information about machine IDs. This service is started after local-fs.target in case /etc/machine-id is a mount point of its own (usually from a memory file system such as "tmpfs") and /etc is writable. The service will invoke systemd-machine-id-setup --commit, which writes the current transient machine ID to disk and unmount the /etc/machine-id file in a race-free manner to ensure that file is always valid and accessible for other processes. See systemd-machine-id-setup(1) for details. The main use case of this service are systems where /etc/machine-id is read-only and initially not initialized. In this case, the system manager will generate a transient machine ID file on a memory file system, and mount it over /etc/machine-id, during the early boot phase. This service is then invoked in a later boot phase, as soon as /etc has been remounted writable and the ID may thus be committed to disk to make it permanent. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemd-machine-id-setup(1), machine-id(5), systemd-firstboot(1) systemd 237 SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)
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