/home not mounting after reboot

[toonjohners]

Hi All

I have number of Red Hat enterprise Linux installs. Versions 5.2 5.3 5.4 and 5.5.
I have the same problem with all of them.

I have /home on it's on partition and every time I reboot /home does not mount.

Has anyone come across this issue before?

I've tried changing the FStab, but still having the same problem

[MikeTbob]

Post the output of

fdisk -l

cat /etc/fstab

mount

[toonjohners]

Hey Mike
Thanks for the reply.

Have look.. Nothing strange looking.

[root@geodb01 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146778685440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17844 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 65 6438 51199155 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 6439 12685 50179027+ 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4 12686 17844 41439667+ 5 Extended
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 12686 15235 20482843+ 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 15236 17785 20482843+ 82 Linux swap / Sol aris

[root@geodb01 ~]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/oracle /oracle ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/boot /boot 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
LABEL=SW-cciss/c0d0p6 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 on /oracle type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
oracleasmfs on /dev/oracleasm type oracleasmfs (rw)

It's funny because I also have the same issue on a machine that /home is not on a seperate partition.

Disk /dev/sda: 145.9 GB, 145999527936 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17750 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 17750 142472452+ 8e Linux LVM

[root@geodb01 ~]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/oracle /oracle ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/boot /boot 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
LABEL=SW-cciss/c0d0p6 swap swap defaults 0 0

mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /oraredo type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdc1 on /oradata type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nasdub:/vol/eng/pmhome on /net/nasdub/vol/eng/pmhome type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,addr=10.0.2.1)
nasdub:/vol/support on /net/nasdub/vol/support type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,addr=10.0.2.1)
nasdub:/vol/eng/releases/BM_3.2.x on /net/nasdub/vol/eng/releases/BM_3.2.x type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,addr=10.0.2.1)

I spotted something today, with this machine.
If try the following

[root@waldorf home]# mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory `test': No such file or directory
[root@waldorf home]#

But if I stop autofs

services autofs stop

I can create a directory with no issue.


Weird eh..

[Oswald]

Maybe your labels are messed up?

What does blkid say?

# blkid

Also it sounds like something is up with your automounter. Check your /etc/auto.master file and all files referenced from there for anything auto-mounting /home.

[toonjohners]

Nothing of note with blkid

[root@geodb01 ~]# blkid
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6: LABEL="SW-cciss/c0d0p6" TYPE="swap"
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5: LABEL="/home" UUID="6fec6a4d-eb9c-42a2-b800-ceac997b4a85" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3: LABEL="/" UUID="4fc22452-fded-477e-afc1-b2b1ce3ff27d" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="2aac0f95-dd9d-49f9-8e20-1fa453a5f6e3" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2: LABEL="/oracle" UUID="48084a66-3baa-4aea-a1de-9b9c121072fa" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdf1: LABEL="FRA" TYPE="oracleasm"
/dev/sde1: LABEL="REDO" TYPE="oracleasm"
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="DATA" TYPE="oracleasm"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="CRS3" TYPE="oracleasm"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="CRS2" TYPE="oracleasm"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="CRS1" TYPE="oracleasm"

I'm surprised that I haven't seen this problem anywhere on the net. I've build a lot of Red Hat machines and this happens on all of them. It only happens on redhat.