File system mount order

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sat Dec 18 09:10:13 UTC 2010


On 18 December 2010 08:42, Rongcong Luo <luorongcong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 17 December 2010 10:13, Rongcong Luo <luorongcong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a quite simple question, how can I specify the mount order of
>>> the partitions on startup?
>>>
>>> I've tried to edit fstab(5), put the /dev/sda11's line before the
>>> /dev/sda6's line. but according to /var/log/syslog file,  it turns out
>>> sda6 still has been mounted before sda11.
>>>
>>> More exactly, I find those partitions (except /) were mounted in
>>> random order on startup. Is this have any way to specify this order?
>>
>> Can I ask why?
> Because of this a bug --
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/587995
> I don't want to copy /usr/bin/find to /bin to work this around,
> because I think change the mount order would be a better way to do.
>
> After I found out that I can't change the mount order, I edited
> /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf according to this:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/523587/comments/5

Thanks for that information.  The problem does not affect me but I
like to understand issues that I may come across at some point.  This
list is a tremendous educational resource.  Many thanks to all who
contribute.

Colin




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