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what does "cat /proc/mounts" say? |
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On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:53, Ian Brandt wrote: |
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> Mike Williams wrote: |
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> > Kinda, yes. |
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> > Add /dev/sdXY entries, but under someother directory, /mnt/gentoo for |
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> > example. i.e. |
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> > |
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> > /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo auto noatime 0 1 |
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> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot auto ro,noatime 0 0 |
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> > etc, etc |
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> > |
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> > The mount -a, and see what happens. |
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> Great suggestion. Trying it I got a rather odd result: |
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> |
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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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> |
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> My main curiosity is the first one. If I check there is no /mnt/gentoo... |
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> |
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> # ls -al /mnt/ |
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> total 4 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 192 Oct 20 12:20 . |
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> drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 480 Jan 5 2005 .. |
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> drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 344 Nov 5 2002 .init.d |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 22 2004 .keep |
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> drwx------ 2 root root 72 Feb 26 2004 cdrom |
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> drwx------ 2 root root 72 Feb 26 2004 floppy |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Jan 8 2004 lfs |
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> |
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> So how could /dev/sda3 already be mounted there? |
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> |
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> I tried creating a new path, /mnt/boottest and /mnt/boottest/boot, and |
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> I get the same thing: |
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> |
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> mount -av |
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> mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted on /mnt/boottest/boot |
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> mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/boottest/ |
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> |
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> But again if I look under /mnt/boottest and /mnt/boottest/boot they're |
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> both empty? And attempts to umount fail: |
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> |
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> # umount /mnt/boottest/boot |
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> umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted |
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> umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted |
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> |
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> umount /mnt/boottest/ |
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> umount: /dev/sda3: not mounted |
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> umount: /dev/sda3: not mounted |
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> |
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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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> Thanks, |
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> Ian |
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