strange /proc mount definition in fstab...

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Thu Aug 23 19:13:23 CEST 2007


On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:26:54PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
>     >   Using FAI 3.1.8 (from Etch) to install some HP servers, I get a
>     > strange /proc definition in /etc/fstab :
> 
>     > none         /proc             proc    rw,nosuid,noexec  0    0   
> 
>     > The "rw,nosuid,noexec" options cause /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to give
>     > a 'failed' status at boot... Is it correct ?
> The red failed message during boot is caused by the string "none". FAI
> 3.2 now uses proc instead of none.

AFAIK all the virtual filesystems are now handled in an init script, so
putting procfs and sysfs into fstab is not strictly necessairy anymore...

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c u
henning


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