topic Re: Bug in mountall? in Operating System - HP-UX

Bug in mountall?

Martien Korenblom — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:15:54 GMT

Is there a bug in mountall?

When using mountall with a filesystem table (not /etc/fstab) containing ONLY nfs mount entries, mountall does not work. It failes with "mountall: file system table may be corrupt".

When I put a valid local filesystem in the filesystem table, it works, using mountall -F nfs

Re: Bug in mountall?

Ravi_8 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:08:02 GMT

Hi Morteil

Normally i use mountall when i am in single user mode to mount all file systesm, whereas in multiuser mode i use mount -a

can u post your fstab file

Re: Bug in mountall?

Martien Korenblom — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:19:12 GMT

The file is completely valid, because when I add it to /etc/fstab and then use mountall it works.

mount -a is no option because I only want to mount NFS filesystems.

Re: Bug in mountall?

Ravi_8 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:24:10 GMT

Hi,

I understood your argument
can u post your /etc/fstab file with valid filesystem entry

Re: Bug in mountall?

Martien Korenblom — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:31:39 GMT

Attached is the /etc/fstab (with only the local filesystems) and nfsmounts.diopter (with only NFS mounts).
The second line in nfsmounts.diopter is needed to make mountall work. Without this line it says 'file system table may be corrupt'

I'm using 'mountall -F nfs nfsmounts.diopter' to mount the filesystems in nfsmounts.diopter.

Re: Bug in mountall?

Martien Korenblom — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:32:31 GMT

This is the nfsmounts.diopter file

Re: Bug in mountall?

Ravi_8 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:50:31 GMT

Hi Martein

I looked into your fstab file. there are no nfs entries.

Normally I make entries in /etc/fstab for file systems to be mounted via NFS. I am not facing any problem.
can you make those NFS entries in /etc/fstab and issue mountall command

Re: Bug in mountall?

Martien Korenblom — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:33:10 GMT

As I said earlier, I'm NOT using /etc/fstab.

I'm using a file with only NFS-mounts!!

Re: Bug in mountall?

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:58:02 GMT

Hi,

Have you tried,

mountall /path/nfsmounts.diopter -

use a "-" at the end of the command.

Hope this helps.

regds

Re: Bug in mountall?

Martien Korenblom — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:59:51 GMT

Tried it to no avail. A filename and - (standard input) are mutually exclusive.

Re: Bug in mountall?

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:07:16 GMT

Hi,

Try,

mountall -r /path/nfsmounts.diopter

Hope this helps.

regds

Re: Bug in mountall?

Martien Korenblom — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:11:20 GMT

Okay, will try that when I'm on location again