I have a problem with two entries in my /etc/fstab. When I boot the machine, the disks are not mounted. When I give mount -a, all disks are present without an error. Of course I don't want to manually do that after each reboot. What can be the problem? CentOS 5.2 cat /etc/fstab /dev/vg/centos / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=zele_common /dczele01/ ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=users /dczele01/users 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 /dev/vg/swap swap swap defaults 0 0 arend:/home /home nfs proto=tcp,nfsvers=3,bg,defaults 0 0 arend:/program /program nfs proto=tcp,nfsvers=3,bg,defaults 0 0 Instead of LABEL I also tried to use the device /dev/vg2/users. The filesystem is created on a logical volume, part of a new volume group: lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert centos vg -wi-ao 6.91G swap vg -wi-ao 992.00M users vg2 -wi-ao 50.00G zele_common vg2 -wi-ao 100.00G After booting /etc/mtab and mount do not list the /dczele01 entries. In the log I see these lines: Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: md: autorun ... Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: md: ... autorun DONE. Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:02 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-3, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:42:03 fsutrecht kernel: Adding 1015800k swap on /dev/vg/swap. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1015800k Then I give a mount -a and see this in the log: Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-3, internal journal Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal Mar 24 08:44:28 fsutrecht kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. So from the log it looks like the mount is done, but nothing is actually mounted. I'm puzzled. The nfs shares and the /boot drive are mounted correctly. So what could cause these two shares to not mount automatically? What else can I do to debug? Thanks, Theo