For mounting network filesystems this can be true... but for a local disk (which I'm pretty sure is the case here) - you are either put into a recovery shell or it won't come up at all and you have to recover by other means. Depends on what the error in your fstab is and what fsck option you have coded.
Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) <david_d...@bcbst.com>wrote: > I would bet it just has to time out. I know NFS and SMBFS can hold on for > quite a while before giving up the ghost. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:21 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry? > > I recently had a typo in fstab for a new file system I tried to add and my > system would not come back up. Thanks to everybody for helping me out and > getting my system back without a major recovery effort. > > Any reason why zLinux dies when it finds a bad entry in fstab even though > the filesystem is not needed to bring the system up? Do other linux/unix > system do this? Seems a little short on error recovery but then I'm speaking > as an old MVS dinosaur. > > > Bobby Bauer > Center for Information Technology > National Institutes of Health > Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 > 301-594-7474 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ----------------------------------------------------- > Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee > E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
