What determines the order in which filesystems are mounted at boot?

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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)
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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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