[SOLVED] all partitions mounted at start up - why (fed 10)

[dejvid]

I have Fedora 10 and to make space for fedora 12 I deleted a partition.
When I rebooted all 20 odd partitions of my two hard drives
were automatically mounted even though
only about 3 are listed in fstab.
They are mounted in /media under a directory taken from the label of the
partition or, if without label, as disk-1, disk-2 etc.

What have I changed and how can I unchange it?

Daivid Barnsdale

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Fedora doesn't mount those partitions. Installer has created mount point for each partition and made things a bit easier for users. If you check output of df -h command, it will display partitions that are listed in /etc/fstab file only.

[dejvid]

Hi and Welcome !

Fedora doesn't mount those partitions. Installer has created mount point for each partition and made things a bit easier for users. If you check output of df -h command, it will display partitions that are listed in /etc/fstab file only.

Yes, it is not normal for Fedora to do a blanket mounting of all partitions in /dev/.
That it should suddenly have started to do this worries me. I would prefer
they weren't mounted but understanding why it should suddenly do this is
my real concern.

When I run df it lists all the 20 hard disk partitions that are on my two
hard disks. Only four are listed in fstab.

~/crte\>df -h  | sort
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda10             17G  5,8G   11G  37% /media/disk-7
/dev/sda11             15G  6,0G  8,0G  43% /media/_homeDeb
/dev/sda12             12G  3,0G  7,6G  29% /media/disk-3
/dev/sda13             17G   13G  2,9G  82% /media/_1
/dev/sda14             14G   13G  1,1G  93% /media/disk-5
/dev/sda15             14G  6,0G  7,2G  46% /media/joss
/dev/sda1             8,8G  3,5G  5,4G  39% /media/disk-2
/dev/sda2              84M   19M   61M  24% /media/_boot1
/dev/sda3              43G   25G   17G  60% /media/_home
/dev/sda5              16G  9,7G  4,7G  68% /media/_
/dev/sda7             995M  328M  668M  33% /mnt/fat
/dev/sda8              20G  6,2G   13G  33% /media/disk-1
/dev/sda9              13G  7,0G  5,1G  58% /media/disk-4
/dev/sdb1             9,2G  150M  8,6G   2% /media/disk
/dev/sdb2             8,3G  928M  7,0G  12% /media/disk-6
/dev/sdb3             9,2G  6,2G  2,6G  71% /media/_12
/dev/sdb5             102G   71G   26G  74% /home
/dev/sdb7              13G  3,4G  8,1G  30% /media/_1234
/dev/sdb8             8,5G  6,8G  1,3G  84% /
/dev/sdb9              43G   21G   20G  51% /home/newdata
tmpfs                 505M  5,6M  500M   2% /dev/shm

None of the partitions listed in fstab have /media mount points.

Thanks for replying, much appreciated.

Daivid

[devils casper]

Thats really strange. Post the contents of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files here.

[dejvid]

Thats really strange. Post the contents of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files here.

Here goes:

]# cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Jan 16 22:32:57 2009
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
UUID=d6bd24e6-5959-4690-a4eb-8b894aece8e9 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
UUID=442C-5461                 /mnt/fat                vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 0
UUID=eb802257-b163-411c-9fb3-a6da0410601e /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
UUID=baa90ded-168a-477b-a747-0f2d89b41d6a /home/newdata           ext2    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
UUID=7a39aa21-9b5c-4511-b8b4-9cf1faad79e5 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

and mtab

]# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sdb8 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda7 /mnt/fat vfat rw,umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sdb9 /home/newdata ext2 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/sfrkan/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=sfrkan 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/_boot1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/_home ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda11 /media/_homeDeb ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda8 /media/disk-1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk-2 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /media/_1234 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda12 /media/disk-3 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/disk-4 reiserfs rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/_ ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda14 /media/disk-5 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/disk-6 ext2 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda13 /media/_1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda15 /media/joss ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda10 /media/disk-7 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /media/_12 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0

any light?

Daivid

[devils casper]

/etc/mtab file is mounting all other partitions. Remove lines for the partitions which you don't want to be mounted at startup.

/dev/sda7 /mnt/fat vfat rw,umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 0

/dev/sda2 /media/_boot1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/_home ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda11 /media/_homeDeb ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda8 /media/disk-1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk-2 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /media/_1234 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda12 /media/disk-3 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/disk-4 reiserfs rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/_ ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda14 /media/disk-5 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/disk-6 ext2 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda13 /media/_1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda15 /media/joss ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda10 /media/disk-7 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /media/_12 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0

[dejvid]

/etc/mtab file is mounting all other partitions. Remove lines for the partitions which you don't want to be mounted at startup.

I tried deleting all entries for the extra partitions. However, when I rebooted they were all remounted as before.

Isn't the role of mtab to record what is mounted rather than what should be mounted?

I'v tried booting to run level 3 and only the fstab partitions are mounted - so
whatever is causing this occurs in runlevel 5 ie xwindows.

Googling I have seen things which suggest that Hal could be responsible
but I still haven't found enough to tell me how to confirm this.
If the default is for Hal to mount everything and it has to be
told to not mount fixed drives then if deleting the partition broke a link
it would explain what is happening.

Daivid

[Jonathan183]

I have Fedora 10 and to make space for fedora 12 I deleted a partition.

I'v tried booting to run level 3 and only the fstab partitions are mounted - so
whatever is causing this occurs in runlevel 5 ie xwindows.

Googling I have seen things which suggest that Hal could be responsible
but I still haven't found enough to tell me how to confirm this.
If the default is for Hal to mount everything and it has to be
told to not mount fixed drives then if deleting the partition broke a link
it would explain what is happening.

Daivid

Which partition did you delete from your existing install?
What desktop environment are you using? have you been changing volume manager settings?

[dejvid]

Which partition did you delete from your existing install?
What desktop environment are you using? have you been changing volume manager settings?

I deleted sdb7 and as a result the root partition changed from sdb9 to sdb8.
This isn't a problem for fstab - it uses uuid but it might have confused other things.

I use gnome. I'm not entirely sure what volume manager settings are but I'm sure I didn't
change them.

Daivid

[Jonathan183]

Does this help? or maybe this ... I don't use Gnome or Fedora so your searching is likely to be more effective than mine