mtab not holding changes after reboot

Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by Slicer, Feb 7, 2010.

  1. Slicer

    Slicer Member

    I am using the Hot To How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny) on my EBox 1.4 install. (This is using Ubuntu 8.0.4.4)

    The problem is when I edit the /etc/mtab/ under section 4 Creating Our RAID Arrays it does not hold the change on reboot.

    Has anyone seen this?

    Here is the section from the HowTo----

    Next replace /dev/sda1 with /dev/md0 in /etc/mtab:

    vi /etc/mtab

    /dev/mapper/debian-root / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
    tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
    proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
    sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
    udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
    tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
    devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
    /dev/md0 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
    ---------------------------------------------------------------

    here is what my file looks like after a reboot..


    /dev/mapper/hercules-root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 0
    proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
    /sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
    varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
    varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
    udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
    devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
    devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
    /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime 0 0

    ------------------------------------------------------------


    not sure how to get the mtab file to hold the needed change.
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's the output of
    Code:
    mount
    after the reboot?
     
  3. Slicer

    Slicer Member

    mount output

    /dev/mapper/hercules-root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota)
    proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
    /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
    varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
    varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
    udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
    devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
    devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
    /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime)
     
  4. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's in /etc/fstab?
     

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