About /etc/fstab

[quadproc]

I have been running Mint 17 for a while and recently decided to go to 17.1. A new problem occurred when I did this, to wit:
/etc/fstab does not seem to be recognized. If i have no partition specified for /home then the system comes up showing mounts for sdc3 and sdc4 my two user partitions.

But if I modify the /etc/fstab file to incude a UUID for sdc3 and a /home then
the system says that it needs S for skip in order to come up, and doing this causes the sdc3 entry to be ignored.
Any ideas? I verified that the md5sum was correct.

quadproc

[Mute Ant]

There's something wrong with your entry for sdc3...

[Cosmo.]

I verified that the md5sum was correct.

How did you do this?
I wonder if you probably did mismatch UUID and md5sum, both are very different things. If you should have entered a (how ever you got it) md5sum in your fstab this cannot work.

There are several ways for getting the UUID, in a terminal enter

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sudo blkid -o list -w /dev/null

[quadproc]

Here is the entire file that I tried to use for 17.1:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda17 during installation
UUID=69ee7381-cec9-4e25-9f4e-a5bdad0c3525 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=f36c63cc-008c-4547-9d20-2fde9d610731 /home ext3 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=1652a31f-4ee8-493d-a8c4-2bec45b3fc2b none swap sw 0 0

Note that my problem is inverse to the file's presence - if the file is valid then the system hangs at S but if the file is invalid then the system starts and mounts both sdc3 and sdc4
without my asking. I checked the md5sum to see if I got a valid transfer; apparently I did because the md5sum matched.

From the tail of the mount command when the /etc/fstab file contains a UUID for /home:
...
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
...
quadproc

[WinterTroubles]

I'm rather inexperienced with fstab, so my be completely wrong, but...

Have you tried adding an options setting to this line..

UUID=f36c63cc-008c-4547-9d20-2fde9d610731 /home ext3 0 2

For example my seperate data partitiom has 'defaults' (without the ' ) between the ext3 and the 0 in your line.

I'm probably wrong of course

Regards
WT

[Aristotelian]

Does it not like /home as your mount point? Could you try /media?

[Cosmo.]

Before reading the post of WinterTroubles I found the same mistake. Without any option between the file-system and the 2 last parameters they get mis-interpreted.

Another question is, if the UUID in this line is correct. With the terminal-command I already provided that could be cleared up.