Bug in mountall?

[Martien Korenblom]

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

[Ravi_8]

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

[Martien Korenblom]

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.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

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

[Martien Korenblom]

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.

[Martien Korenblom]

This is the nfsmounts.diopter file

[Ravi_8]

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

[Martien Korenblom]

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

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

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Have you tried,

mountall /path/nfsmounts.diopter -

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

Hope this helps.

regds

[Martien Korenblom]

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

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Try,

mountall -r /path/nfsmounts.diopter

Hope this helps.

regds

[Martien Korenblom]

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