filesystem mount fails when /etc/fstab record contains UTF BOM at the top of the line.

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Issue

  • filesystem mount fails when /etc/fstab record contains UTF BOM at the top of the line.

          1 <U+FEFF>LABEL=/                  /              ext3     defaults        1 1
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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