Intermittent problems mounting /home
My /etc/fstab is as follows:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system=""><mount point=""><type><options><dump><pass>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/xvda / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/xvdb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/xvdc /home ext3 defaults 0 2</pass></dump></options></type></mount></file>
The problem is that intermittently the mount of /dev/xvdc on /home fails. Here's the startup script output when that happens:
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
/dev/xvda: clean, 65383/5690496 files, 1438641/5701632 blocks
mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/xvdc
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
mountall: fsck /home [2041] terminated with status 8
mountall: Unrecoverable fsck error: /home
mountall: Skipping mounting /home since Plymouth is not available
Any ideas what could be going on?
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I just switched back to having /home be a directory on the root partition rather than a separate partition.