What determines the order in which filesystems are mounted at boot?
Issue
- Need to know what determines the order in which filesystems are mounted at boot.
- Out of order filesystems are not getting mounted properly.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 4
- 5
- 6
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and up see How to fix mount order of file systems in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instead.
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