On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 01:16:12PM -0400, Martin Fick wrote: > > Looks like the contents of fs cache. > > You might try to find out what's there (from single user best, but > > another root partition would do too) using df. Make sure to first mount > > read-only, then (when you can see everything is somehow still alive) > > remount rw. fsck'ing may be a Very Bad Idea. If you can see files it'd > > be a good idea to do some kind of backup (if it works, you won't need it > > afterwards in 99% of all cases) before going rw. > > Hmm, I'n not familiar with the automounter design at all, > what do you mean by fs cache. Chances are fsck has already > been run since the first time I rebooted it was into the > same partition. I'm not really sure what you are > suggesting here since I already remounted it from another > partition and saw the above directories?
Well, I'm a bit confused. You "rebooted into the same partition" ... and "remounted it from another partition". At the same time, or were these different attempts? YOu should really "boot single" to be able to rename the auto.master file. What about Knoppix? It's a perfect tool to repair damaged installations :-) Cheers, Steffen > > (BTW, it's a quite common trap, almost as efficient as chown -R xyz .*) > What is the common trap, automounting over slash? Yep. Did this ages ago, under SunOS (or was it already Solaris?) > > > ??? so you started another kernel and gave it the root=... arg? > > Then of course automount would be running before you can do anything... > > there's perhaps even more hope than you'd expect! > > > No no no, I started another kernel and another root > partition, then mounted the old root on /mnt and looked > around. Hmmm. What did 'df' tell you? -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
