On Monday 07 July 2003 15:11, daniel wrote: > On July 7, 2003 02:26 am, Zack Gilburd wrote: > > On Sunday 06 July 2003 09:32 pm, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > > > Sometime in the past few weeks, /dev/root showed up in df. > > > % df > > > /dev/root 1574280 813608 760672 52% / > > > I prefer having /dev/discs/disc0/part7; is there a way to change this? > > It's just a symlink. `ls -l /dev/root`. It's not really a big deal. > > (And no, I don't know how to change it. However, I will bet $5 that it's > > in the devfs confs.) > my best guess is that when you updated your baselayout, you overwrote your > /etc/fstab file and didn't modify it to look the way you had before. since > /dev/root is just a symlink to your root partition in your /dev directory, > you can point whatever you like to the actual partition (on my box, it's > the usual /dev/hda3).
While you are at fixing /dev/fstab you should consider using labels (if using ext[23]). That way you don't get problems if you are using another hd before your gentoo-hd sometime... Arnold -- Get my public-key from pgp.mit.edu or pgp.uni-mainz.de --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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