RE: [gentoo-server] Filesystem question

[Collin Starkweather]

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 17:50, Chris wrote:
> Hey Collin,
>
> I think that is normal,
>
> If u run the following:
>
> root@server chris # ls -l /dev/root
>
> u will see that it does indeed point to your root partition:
>
>
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           33 Jul 20 17:43 /dev/root ->
> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris

Part of what's mystifying me is that I don't see a /dev/root:

  www root # df
  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/root              4134900   2107420   1985472  52% /
  none                    257572         0    257572   0% /dev/shm
  /dev/sda7              4134900     45608   4047284   2% /app
  /dev/sda8              4134900    116820   3976072   3% /opt
  /dev/sda9             21702936   1754860  19727588   9% /home
  /dev/sdb1             35278540   2183956  31302536   7% /archive
  www root # ls -l /dev/root
  ls: /dev/root: No such file or directory
  www root # 

I asked a friend to send me the output of df on one of his Gentoo boxes
(he uses ReiserFS if that makes any difference) and it was more
consistent with what I would have expected:

  /dev/sdc1           /boot    ext2      noauto,noatime  1 1
  /dev/sdc2           /       reiserfs   defaults        0 0
  /dev/sdd1           /disk2   reiserfs   defaults        0 0
  /dev/sdc3           none     swap      sw              0 0
  /dev/cdroms/cdrom0   /cdrom   iso9660    noauto,user,ro  0 0
  proc               /proc     proc      defaults        0 0
  tmpfs              /dev/shm  tmpfs      defaults        0 0
  /dev/sda5           /redhat   ext3       noauto,user     0 0

No /dev/root in his case.

Cheers,

-Collin

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Collin Starkweather, Ph.D         collin.starkweather@××××××××.edu
University of Colorado                     Department of Economics
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