On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote: > The first issue, do I have a swap partition activated and mounted? When I > boot I get the message "activating swap partition" but shouldn't it be in > 'etc/mtab', 'proc/mounts', and 'mount -t swap'?
no it shouldn't. swap partitions aren't really filesystems so they're funny where mount and mtab is concerned. Type 'free' and see how much swap space it says you have. > > The second issue, is a separate partition (hda6) which I have allocated the > vast majority of my memory space to. This clearly doesn't exist at all. > Trying to remedy this, I booted from my rescue disk, activated and mounted > hda2 as root, then activated and mounted hda6 as usr2. After exiting the > rescue disk and rebooting I did have a 'usr2' directory, but it was located > in hda2. > > Also, in 'etc/init.d/boot' the command 'mount -avt nonfs, noproc' exists. > (Possibly this is helpful information) Don't edit your startup scripts unless you know what you're doing. > > Are there commands that I can use to permanently activate and mount > partitions without using the rescue disk? > List the filesystem in /etc/fstab and if will mount at boot time (unless you use the noauto option) > When I do this, is it safe to mount hda6 as '/usr' or will this wipe out all > the existing data on /usr in hda2? (The solution is to mount hda6 as usr2, > 'cp usr usr2', then rename usr2 to usr somehow?) > It won't wipe out the data, it will cover it up though. As long as you have something mounted on a directory the stuff in that directory is hidden until you unmount the offending filesystem. Here's the procedure.... mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /usr2 cp -a /usr/* /usr2/ < confirm the options on this one > Now edit your fstab to mount /dev/hda6 as /usr shutdown -r now this is all as root of course. > Also, how do you exit the 'rescue' disk correctly? 'Cancel' always brings > the menu screen up, so I end up just turning off the computer. Possibly > this is why hda6 didn't get mounted. > Has nothing to do with why hda6 isn't mounting (see above). A shutdown -r now should do it, or a control-alt-del Nate --- Nathan C. Burnett "Everyone is born right-handed, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] only the greatest overcome it." http://www.cse.msu.edu/~burnet26 -Slogan, Left-Handers' Club of Ireland ( ( (((In Stereo Where Available))) ) ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
