Something curious happened to me today. For some strange reason, when i booted my machine, it decided to only follow part of my /etc/fstab/ (and incorrectly at that). More precisely, it refused to mount 2 partitions and then it mounted another partition in a completely wrong mountpoint. I tried fixing this by doing a umount -a followed by a mount -a, but to no avail.
Ultimately i decided to reboot, but i am pretty sure that if i had hunted down the name of each partition under /dev and mounted them manually it would have been ok.
My question is then the following: what on earth would cause such a strange hiccup? Have any of you encountered odd behavior like this before?
Thanks in advance, and thanks for all the previous help that I have been given at this forum. You guys have always been very receptive and have helped me learn much about linux.
-Zorak
Ultimately i decided to reboot, but i am pretty sure that if i had hunted down the name of each partition under /dev and mounted them manually it would have been ok.
My question is then the following: what on earth would cause such a strange hiccup? Have any of you encountered odd behavior like this before?
Thanks in advance, and thanks for all the previous help that I have been given at this forum. You guys have always been very receptive and have helped me learn much about linux.
-Zorak