Re: Peculiar problem mounting a harddrive

J.
2005-06-21T12:39:25Z

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Mukund JB. wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a peculiar problem mounting a hard drive on the mount point
> "/mnt/LinuxH1".
>
> I have edited the /etc/fstab at as follows:-
>
> Dev/hdb1 /home/LinuxH1 auto defaults 0 0

You made some typo's... `Dev/hdb1' should be: `/dev/hdb1' . Just like you
are listing below in your message. That's why prob. the below works and
the previous not.

> But, I am able to mount the device with the mount command as follows
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /home/LinuxH1
>
> Can someone suggest me what cont be the problem? Why am I not able to
> mount the device at mount time using the fstab entry?
>
> Regards,
> Mukund Jampala

If that didn't solve it, put some error messages that occur in your next
message.

Cheers..

J.