Error message mounting local file system upon boot Debian

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:07:49 -0300, Ney AndrŽ de Mello Zunino staggered into the Black Sun and said:

One of the filesystems inetc-fstab failed to mount at boot. The thing to do is find out what's failing and fix it--put "noauto" in the options field if this is a removable media device, for instance. If you have a line like this inetc-fstab:

dev-fd0 media-floppy auto defaults 0 0

...thendev-fd0 (first floppy disk) will be mounted on directorymedia-floppy, its filesystem type is auto-detected, and it'll be mounted at boot ("defaults" includes "mount at boot"). Typically, you don't want to mount removable media at system startup; you want a line like so:

dev-fd0 media-floppy auto noauto,users,umask=000 0 0

...the "noauto,users,umask=000" makes it so that the medium isn't mounted at boot, any user can mount-umount it, and any user can read, write, and exec any file on that medium. (This makes things simpler in most cases, though it's not that secure.)

It's a line inetc-fstab that's causing the error message. HTH,

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