Here is what is in /etc/fstab. # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Mon Sep 7 20:25:11 2009 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info # UUID=878c124d-0271-4dd7-95d1-e6c95439220c / ext3 defaults 1 1 UUID=3511be5f-909d-44c5-a806-2e1d00d21dc4 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=8ee04c46-a36e-484d-824c-661c07f4c126 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 UUID=917a7154-8448-4c94-a230-7bd4be54e571 swap swap defaults 0 0 CentOS-5 is on a hard drive of the same computer. /etc/fstab does not explicitly mount CentOS-5, but Fedora-10 somehow mounts all hard drives including NTFS drives. I must have done something to do this, but I forgot what I did. Do you have any idea what I did and how I remedy this situation? On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:11 PM, André Gillibert wrote: > Thinking Outside the Well wrote: > > > I agree you are right on your suggestion that Fedora is trying to umount > a > > network file system. I think it actually is trying to umount a CentOS > file > > system installed in another hard drive. The reason why I think that way > is > > that whenever I log on to CentOS, it complains that something is wrong > with > > the file system and checks it > > > Not properly unmounting a network (NFS, CIFS, etc.) mount point shouldn't > break the target file system in any way, and shouldn't cause fsck to report > errors. > Is CentOS hard drive on another computer? > In that case, what network file system protocol is used, if any? > If it's local hard drive, then, it's probably mounted as local file system > (ext3 or other), and, not properly unmounting it, may cause fsck to > complain. > > The contents of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab or /proc/mounts may help you. > > fstab contains a static list of fs mounted at boot time. > mtab and /proc/mounts contain the list of currently mounted file systems, > including ones that might have been automatically mounted by your desktop > environment when HAL notified it. > > -- > André Gillibert > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >