OK, new development. I used fdisk to repair my partition table. After I did so, it told me that the kernel still uses the old (incorrect) partition table, and will until the next reboot.
Is there ANY way to have the kernel recognize the new partition table without rebooting? David said onto me: ------------------------------------------------------------------ | |Somehow, someway, I jacked-up my partition table. What happened was....In DrakConf -> |Diskdrake I deleted and re-created my swap partition. | |Now, swap does not work. Swap turns on as an incorrect partition. *And*, |fstab/mtab/df-ahT/diskdrake do not agree. The output from df-ahT and fstab and mtab |are |below. | |/opt seems to not be in my path now, but I can access the files that are there. | | |I also cannot access any files on /mnt/windows either. And root cannot umount it. | |# ls /mnt/windows |`????.?* ?.?* ��?@9* �* �.??* x????.?* ||????.?* ?`.?* 0�???.@�x/ ?�??.?* �.�x/ x�???�??.?* |?????.?* ?`.?* 9.��?* ?�??.?�?* p�???.?* ?]??�]??* |????.?* ?`.?* 9.�* @�??��??.?* p�???* ����* |?* ?`.?* 9.p?* f_posix.�?* seek!* ��������* |?* ?`.?* ?�???�??.��?* f_posix.�?* s_if!* ��������* |?.?* ?????.?* �.f_r* ?.f_r* ��??p�??.?* |?* 0* ?�???�??.?* f_rwacc.?* utoload.?* |?* @???@???.0* ,]??�??* �~??0???.?* utoload.?* |?* 0????.?* ��??��??.��?* �* x???* | | |# df -ahT |Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |/dev/hda9 ext2 509M 50M 434M 11% / |none proc 0 0 0 - /proc |none devfs 0 0 0 - /dev |none devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts |/dev/hda8 ext2 6.9G 3.2G 3.3G 49% /home |/dev/hda10 ext2 2.7G 1.7G 948M 65% /usr |/dev/hda11 ext2 2.7G 1.7G 948M 65% /usr/local |none tmpfs 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm |/dev/hda12 ext2 1004M 11M 942M 2% /opt |/dev/hda13 ext2 533M 8.0K 505M 1% /var | | |fstab: | |/dev/hda9 / ext2 defaults 1 1 |none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 |none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |/dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 |/dev/hda1 /mnt/C ntfs user,umask=0 0 0 |/dev/hda6 /mnt/E ntfs user,umask=0 0 0 |/dev/hda7 /mnt/F ntfs user,umask=0 0 0 |/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0 |/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 defaults 0 0 |/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user 0 0 |/dev/hda14 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 |/dev/hda12 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2 |none /proc proc defaults 0 0 |/dev/hda10 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 |/dev/hda11 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2 |/dev/hda13 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 |/dev/hda15 swap swap defaults 0 0 | | |mtab: | |/dev/hda9 / ext2 rw 0 0 |none /proc proc rw 0 0 |none /dev devfs rw 0 0 |none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 |/dev/hda8 /home ext2 rw 0 0 |/dev/hda10 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 |/dev/hda11 /usr/local ext2 rw 0 0 |none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 |/dev/hda12 /opt ext2 rw 0 0 |/dev/hda13 /var ext2 rw 0 0 | | | | |Does anyone have any idea of what happened or how I can fix this? ANY ideas are most |welcome. | | | |tia |Dave |-- |����������������������������������������������������������������������� |David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 |Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws |Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com |����������������������������������������������������������������������� | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ����������������������������������������������������������������������� David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com �����������������������������������������������������������������������
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