/dev/md0 keeps mounting on /var
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Mon Oct 4 08:47:10 PDT 2004
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:32:57 -0700
Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:35:45PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > For some time I keep getting /dev/md0 mounting on /var as the last
> > mount when going to multi-user. The obvious result is that all
> > services that use /var fail to start/function properly. Since I
> > don´t use it I suppose I´ve done something wrong with mergemaster.
> >
> > The only workaround I´ve found is to rename /boor/kernel/g_md.ko.
> >
> > And since I just can´t fix this since ~ beta4 could someone point me
> > where to look ?
>
> This is proably happening because your /var is failing the writability
> test in /etc/rc.d/var. One situation I can of where this could happen
> and you would otherwise have a valid /var would be if you have a
> read-only NFS root and an NFS /var.
No, it is not the case. Does the order in fstab meter ?
/dev/ad0s3d is already mountrd on /var when md0 bumps in.
>From memory it looks like this:
% mount
/dev/ad0s3a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0s3f on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s3d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s3e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s2d on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s4 on /vol/it/xp (msdosfs, local, read-only)
/dev/ad1s3d on /vol/it/cur/h (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad1s2d on /vol/it/n (ufs, local, soft-updates)
devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local)
/dev/md0 on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> In that cause /var wouldn't be mounted yet because mountcritremote
> wouldn't be run yet. Is this or something similar the case for you?
> You can try setting varmfs="NO" and populate_var="NO" in /etc/rc.conf
> to disable this script.
#cat /etc/fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/ad0s2b none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s3a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s3f /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s3d /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s3e /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s2d /home ufs rw, 2 2
/dev/ad0s4 /vol/it/xp msdosfs ro 0 1
# bk
#/dev/ad0s1d /vol/it/cur/d ufs rw,noauto 2 2
#/dev/ad0s1e /vol/it/cur/e ufs rw,noauto 2 2
#160WD
/dev/ad1s3d /vol/it/cur/h ufs rw 2 2
#/dev/ad1s1e /vol/it/m ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad1s2d /vol/it/n ufs rw 2 2
/dev/cd0 /home/itetcu/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/cd1 /home/itetcu/cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto,nodev,nosuid 0 0
Thanks for your help,
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IOnut
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