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On 09/18/2009 02:20 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> I followed the method outlined in the Gentoo installation docs, placing |
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> /boot on a small partition. Then when booting, I specify the root |
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> directory in grub.conf. |
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> The device is listed in /etc/fstab |
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> /dev/sda4 / ext3 |
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> noatime 0 1 |
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> However, df doesn't list /dev/sda4. Is this because it was specified as |
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> a parameter? |
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> The following are listed by df: |
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> rootfs 9780176 8060012 1223356 87% / |
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> /dev/root 9780176 8060012 1223356 87% / |
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This is normal. It's just that df does not dereference symlinks; |
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/dev/root is a symlink, in your case to /dev/sda4. That's how the root |
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filesystem gets mounted these days. |
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> You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but |
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> when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the |
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> bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what |
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> counts. |
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If that's supposed to be a sig, could you please make that more apparent? |