KDE4.3 beta issues

Wed May 20 11:27:43 UTC 2009

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 05:49:13 am Goh Lip wrote:
> Goh Lip wrote:

> Need your help with fstab.
>
> Due to above problem in mounting of partitions,
> tried to add entries in fstab to circumvent the problem.
> Unfortunately, system does not start and hangs with errors at command
> line. Luckily started my Hardy at another partition and reverted the
> fstab entries at Jaunty and I can restart Jaunty again.
>
> Maybe my fstab 'fu' is not good enough and maybe Kde4.3 beta works in
> mysterious ways. I append my fstab entries below

> I like to use labels rather than /dev/sdx or UUID, partitions are in
> same disk anyway.

What disk a partition is on does not matter to the machine, it looks for a 
hexadecimal name to access it (UUID)
>
> #LABEL=Kde4 line (without #) is what hangs system, don't know why.
> So had to use back LABEL=Kde4 line (without #,without#)
>
> LABEL=Dee, LABEL=Volt, LABEL=Kde3 lines is my attempt to automount.
> Doesn't work for either NTFS, ext3 or ext4. This is where I need your
> advice. Did I get anything wrong?

'none' as a mount point ?
>
> Regards,
> Goh Lip

One of the Ubuntu devs put together a pdf help sheet on fstab, here is the 
link:  http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/understanding-fstab-pdf-version/
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I never use labels or /sdx names since the machine has to translate them to 
the UUID anyway.   The UUID will never change until the partition is 
reformatted. You could use the UUID in the actual command line and put a 
comment above (or below) to say what it is.  I use the 'copy & paste if it 
works' method for new partitions.  I am not familiar with the 'none' option 
but everything else looks OK, if a little sparse.  I'm using KDE 4.2.3 on 
Jaunty, but I do not see why that should matter with fstab.

I have copied my fstab for reference.  I've got things mounted all over my 
/home and I do not have a problem.  

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sdb1 - root - 20 Gb
UUID=398e6e9f-9bc0-4eba-8fa4-635f75d4923a /               ext3    
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sdb3 - home - 464 Gb
UUID=387be90b-be77-4a5b-b4b0-92a1ad0e8583 /home           ext3    relatime        
0       2
# /dev/sdb6 - tmp - 15 Gb
UUID=a41b9181-45b6-4342-87ba-a27e07cb2007 /tmp            ext3    relatime        
0       2
# /dev/sdb5 - swap - 1 Gb
UUID=f7e4ad61-8a5e-4945-b7de-4f265b4f7270 none            swap    sw              
0       0
# /dev/sdc5 - Movies - 429Gb
UUID=fe7b4d5a-6148-4d1a-90b9-35c47dee6de9 /home/alan/Movies 		ext3 
nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sdc6 - Music - 107Gb
UUID=a1745796-e172-413e-9f8a-e308e6b3f187 /home/alan/Music 		ext3 
nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sdc7 - Distro Share Space - 10 Gb
UUID=b3c2faa4-d734-4e51-9ee3-a5321c08462b /home/alan/Shared 		ext3 
nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sda4 - Backups - 278 Gb
UUID=035e3def-ec56-4cad-a0f6-1bff6d52acd4 /home/alan/Documents/Backups 	ext3 
nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sda3 - Windows back door - 100 GB
UUID=69B5EECB097BA772 /home/alan/Documents/Distros/BackDoor 		ntfs 
nouser,relatime,auto,rw,users,quiet 0 0
# /dev/sda1 - Vista - 60 Gb
UUID=7578E79C2857A1BA /home/alan/Documents/Distros/Vista 			ntfs 
nouser,relatime,auto,rw,users,quiet 0 0
# /dev/sda2 - XP - 30 Gb
UUID=26239C3532AF9BBE /home/alan/Documents/Distros/XP				ntfs 
nouser,relatime,auto,rw,users,quiet 0 0
# /dev/sdc1 - Test Distro 1 - 30 Gb
UUID=25ae7932-0b43-45c6-ba21-d191f4afca0f /home/alan/Documents/Distros/sdc1	
ext3 nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sdc2 - Test Distro 2 - 30 Gb
UUID=5ccdee75-8f41-4a6a-a5d4-2afb4e24d7a1 /home/alan/Documents/Distros/sdc2	
ext3 nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sdc3 - Test Distro 3 - 30 Gb
UUID=75F04283538110A9 /home/alan/Documents/Distros/sdc3				ntfs 
nouser,relatime,auto,rw,users,quiet 0 0
#
# CD and Floppy Drives
#
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/scd1       /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
#/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,utf8,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

You might want to copy & paste into a text editor for easier reading, many 
lines are too long and wrap

Alan

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