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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:52:22 +0200, Assaf Urieli wrote: |
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>>BTW, /usr/bin doesn't even exist - all /usr contains is lost+found |
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>Do you have a separate partition for /usr? If so, is it mounted? |
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>What you describe is a classic symptom of installing /usr on its own |
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>partition and forgetting to add it to /etc/fstab. |
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Oy vey, that was it! I knew I must be doing something stupid. |
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Feeling adventurous, I decided to create a 4th partition and mount /usr |
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onto it in my /etc/fstab, but on the other hand I didn't mount it while |
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installing gentoo (I thought somehow the fstab would be enough)... |
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So everything got installed on the root partition. |
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I corrected the problem by changing my /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda4 |
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somewhere else, and now when I reboot my /usr/bin directory contains |
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everything that was installed on it. |
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So, just a couple of questions to get things organised in my brain: |
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If I wanted to mount the /usr partition while installing, would this |
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have been the right command? Would I have to make the directory first? |
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# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/usr |
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In fact, I'm not even quite sure that I understand the whole concept of |
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mounting... |
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When I type: |
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# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo |
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Does the /mnt/gentoo directory already exist somewhere? If it didn't, I |
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imagine this statement would throw an error. But where can it exist if |
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it isn't yet associated with any partition (i.e. /dev/hda3)? |
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# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot |
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Where am I making this directory? I would assume this statement creates |
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the directory on /dev/hda3. But then, in the next statement, I'm |
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associating it with /dev/hda4! |
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# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot |
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Another question: |
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Now that I've got an unused /dev/hda4 partition, what should I mount on |
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it? I can't mount /usr onto it cause /usr already exists on the root |
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partition & is full of stuff. Can I just invent any old name for |
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mounting (like say, /home), and then use it for storing data? |
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Sorry for the naive questions, but I'm trying to get my head around some |
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of these concepts... |
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Best regards, |
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Assaf |
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