Help with fstab additions

Brian Cluff brian at snaptek.com
Mon May 2 23:06:41 MST 2011


Oops, I read that wrong the first time.  You do not want a comma between 
iso9660 and user.  My brain read them all as the option section and the 
lack of a comma would have been wrong in that case.

Brian Cluff

On 05/02/2011 10:43 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Interesting.  Putting the comma in all 6 lines made them all fail one at
> a time.  The failure message in /var/log/boot.log says
>
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'loop'
> mountall: mount /tftpboot/howtogeek/linux/ubu1004DL32 [745] terminated
> with status 32
>
> and I find no reference to loop in a man fstab though I do in mount.  I
> am wondering if the guide I am using may have been written by someone
> who manually mounted as a loop device and then wrote the article and
> assumed it was a valid type for fstab. <mumbling as I speculate>  I have
> never understood loop devices.  Is that why you said you did not know
> why any of them worked?
>
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     I can't tell you why any of them work, but there appears to be a
>     missing comma between iso9660 and user on all the lines.
>
>     As for the nfs stuff, nfs requires you to add either the
>     "subtree_check" or "no_subtree_check" option to the exports file for
>     every line these days.
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     On 05/02/2011 08:21 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
>         I've added these 6 lines to /etc/fstab on this machine:
>
>
>           /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-i386.iso    /mnt/ubu1004DL32
>             udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0
>
>           /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.04/ubuntu-10.04.02-desktop-amd64.iso
>             /mnt/ubu1004DL64    udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0
>             /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
>                  /mnt/ubu1010DL32    udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0
>             /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso
>             /mnt/ubu1010DL64    udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0
>             /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-i386.iso
>                  /mnt/ubu1104DL32    udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0
>             /home/larry/isofiles/ubuntu/11.04/ubuntu-11.11-desktop-amd64.iso
>             /mnt/ubu1104DL64    udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0
>
>
>         Problem is that only the middle two seem to work.  The first one (or
>         more) show an error on screen and give 2 options before the gdm
>         login
>         but gdm comes up too soon to do anything.  After logging in I find
>
>             May  2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [2]:
>         Neither
>         'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export
>         "*:/images/dev".#012  Assuming default behaviour
>             ('no_subtree_check').#012  NOTE: this default has changed since
>             nfs-utils version 1.0.x
>             May  2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [3]:
>         Neither
>         'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export
>         "*:/mnt/ubu1004DL32".#012  Assuming default behaviour
>             ('no_subtree_check').#012  NOTE: this default has changed since
>             nfs-utils version 1.0.x
>             May  2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [4]:
>         Neither
>         'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export
>         "*:/mnt/ubu1004DL64".#012  Assuming default behaviour
>             ('no_subtree_check').#012  NOTE: this default has changed since
>             nfs-utils version 1.0.x
>             May  2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [5]:
>         Neither
>         'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export
>         "*:/mnt/ubu1010DL32".#012  Assuming default behaviour
>             ('no_subtree_check').#012  NOTE: this default has changed since
>             nfs-utils version 1.0.x
>             May  2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [6]:
>         Neither
>         'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export
>         "*:/mnt/ubu1010DL64".#012  Assuming default behaviour
>             ('no_subtree_check').#012  NOTE: this default has changed since
>             nfs-utils version 1.0.x
>             May  2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [7]:
>         Neither
>         'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export
>         "*:/mnt/ubu1104DL32".#012  Assuming default behaviour
>             ('no_subtree_check').#012  NOTE: this default has changed since
>             nfs-utils version 1.0.x
>             May  2 19:49:11 fogtest exportfs[1100]: /etc/exports [8]:
>         Neither
>         'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export
>         "*:/mnt/ubu1104DL64".#012  Assuming default behaviour
>             ('no_subtree_check').#012  NOTE: this default has changed since
>             nfs-utils version 1.0.x
>
>
>         from processing /etc/exports for nfs.  I don't think this means
>         anythoing about why only 2 of the 6 gets mounted.  Any ideas?
>
>         --
>         Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
>         The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
>         occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
>            - Thomas Jefferson
>
>
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