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On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:53, Ian Brandt wrote: |
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> Great suggestion. Trying it I got a rather odd result: |
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> # mount -av |
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> mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/gentoo/ |
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> mount: none already mounted on /dev/shm |
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> mount: mount point /mnt/gentoo/boot does not exist |
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> My main curiosity is the first one. If I check there is no /mnt/gentoo... |
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Interesting... |
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A 'cat /proc/mounts' like John suggest would be helpful, before and after |
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attempting to mount stuff, also try the mount manually. |
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mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/somethingthatexistsbutisntbeingused. |
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> Also, with this method of test, can I test mounting swap from |
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> /dev/sda2? In my existing fstab sda2 is mounted to "none". Does it |
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> make sense to do the following?... |
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> /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo/swap swap sw 0 0 |
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No, as swap isn't "mounted", you can easily live without swap for a while |
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though, so just comment it out. |
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Mike Williams |
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