[CentOS] fstab, unusual behavior of "missing UUID"

Stephen Harris lists at spuddy.org
Sat Jul 6 18:22:38 UTC 2013


(sorry for out-of-order post; I deleted the OP's before replying)

> On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 10:40 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote:
> > I have the following as the last line of my /etc/fstab file on a 
> > computer running CentOS6.4..
> > 
> > UUID=3b550884-8d05-41a5-a205-17b6d7269dd1 /mnt ext3 
> > rw,suid,dev,exec,noauto,nouser,async  0  2

This final "2" should be a zero.  You've told the system to check the
disk at boot time.   If the disk doesn't exist then fsck will abort
and the machine will drop to single-user mode prompt.

-- 

rgds
Stephen



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