mount listed in fstab not ready

[rockhoppe7]

Hi, I recently put my /home folder on a separate partition (sda3), by following these instructions: www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome).

All went well (after I chmod-ed the permissions for .ICEauthority), except that now during the boot sequence I get this message:

"One or more of the mounts listed in fstab cannot yet be mounted.
Waiting for sda3
press Esc to enter a recovery shell"

Two or three seconds later, the boot continues, and sda3 mounts - when the system comes up, /home is fully read/writeable.

Can anyone tell me why fstab can't see my new partition from the start?

Thanks

FYI, my fstab looks like this (I don't know why there are commented-out lines - I guess it was when I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 - I did an 'upgrade', not 'fresh install').
I'm not sure what difference the 'nodev' and 'nosuid' parameters are in the last new line - I was just following the instructions, but quick searching suggest this is not the problem.

I'd be grateful for any help.



# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' 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>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=7965dc5c-001c-4221-a273-45a9e12e1179 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=908f4a24-f843-4209-b39b-734ba36cfe48 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2

[nitstorm]

Not all that sure about ur prob but i had a similar problem, said swap was missing, some UUID error

so i put in blkid in the terminal got the UUID for the swap partition and put it back in fstab, if u have a similar thing or jus want to check out what my prob was, here is the link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1428166

[rockhoppe7]

Thanks for the reply, nitstorm.

I don't think the problem is the same - your swap partition was not recognized by your machine even after you created it because it wasn't in your fstab file - once you listed it in fstab, it ran fine.

My partition IS listed in fstab, but the system doesn't see it on boot. I get:

"One or more of the mounts listed in fstab cannot yet be mounted. Waiting for sda3"

..for a few seconds before it comes up as normal.

Anyone got any suggestions? Is it something to do with Grub - or some other part of the boot process?

[rockhoppe7]

anyone? :-)

[garvinrick4]

Did you add it to fstab yourself? Do you want it to mount or just show up in Under Places drop down unmounted but
ready to mount if need be.

[rockhoppe7]

I did add it manually, as per the instructions I followed:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

I want it to mount normally - because my /home is on it.

The weird thing is that it DOES mount, but only after the boot message:
"One or more of the mounts listed in fstab cannot yet be mounted. Waiting for sda3"

I don't understand why this is happening. I suppose my worry is that it has some problem if it's not mounting properly.

Thanks

[garvinrick4]

You know if I were you I would start a new thread and ask if someone would
post there fstab with a /home installed on a partition.
You can then see what it looks like and if yours is right. I do not have a seperate /home so have nothing to compare yours with.

If it is not mounted on desktop do these lines of code mount it?

sudo mkdir /media/home (make a directory)
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/home (mount the partition)

sudo umount /media/home (to unmount not a typo umount is right)