Author: Alex Date: To: hants, Hampshire LUG Discussion List CC: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Failure of fstab edit.
> There may be a service or some module configuration running on boot that > is re-writing your fstab file - it is not usual to mount, but perfectly
> possible, a DVD disk on boot. Try another DVD. DVD's, as you know, can
> have latency or lag before the data is read into system memory, this delay
> may be the cause of the problem.
>
> This was my initial thought when I first read this - perhaps something is
replacing it when it sees it has been edited? Tried an `lsof /etc/fstab` to
see if anything is reading it? Perhaps a long shot.
