[ale] fstab question

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

I think the missing sda2-4 are due to use of extended/logical
partitions.  Most likely, sda2 is an extended partition and contains
sda5/6 as logical partitions (which start numbering at 5).

-Johnny

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Sean <kilpatms at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Damned if I know!  The system seems to be operating normally after the boot
> sequence completes. Obviously /, /home, and swap are mounting normally. I am
> assuming that /boot is also mounted as the message pops up at the beginning of
> the boot process, which scrolls along normally.
> <mount> reports that /boot is mounted on /sda1; /home is on /sda6; / is on /sda5.
>  I have no idea what might have happened to /sda2-4. :)
>
> But just in case it might be useful, here is what <mount> reports:
>
> kilpatms at pfc:~$ mount
> /dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
> none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
> none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
> none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/kilpatms/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=kilpatms)
>
> TIA
>
> Sean
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Tue Nov  3 15:58 , Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> sent:
>
>>which line failed to mount?
>>
>>On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Sean kilpatms at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>> Upgraded Ubuntu last night on this netbook. Have one sorta odd glitch.
>>> On boot, the OS reports it cannot mount one of the lines in the fstab file.
>>>
>>> I have copied the file below. I have never seen an fstab file that looked like
>>> this one.
>>>
>>> Can I solve this problem by simply commenting out the first line? Or should I
>>> just ignore the warning?
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>>> #
>>> # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
>>> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
>>> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
>>> #
>>> #
>>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>>> # / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>>> UUID=99b3cc22-ba4b-4333-b7ea-2c05be080bd0 /               ext3
>>> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>>> # /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>>> UUID=1866e268-96e3-4aaf-b727-b66140d931a3 /boot           ext3    relatime
>>>  0       2
>>> # /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
>>> UUID=f66626c0-a831-4fda-bf8d-a2898383439a /home           ext3    relatime
>>>  0       2
>>> # swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
>>> UUID=c5279109-2f3b-4214-8c02-f5ee54550104 none            swap    sw
>>>  0       0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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