-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 July 2003 08:11 am, 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). > > so i'd suggest that to fix it, you could edit /etc/fstab and replace > /dev/root with whatever you like, just remember that whatever you > change it too has to be pointing to the right device and partition.
Here's why my fstab has : /dev/discs/disc0/part8 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 %ls -l /dev/root lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 2003-07-07 07:13 /dev/root -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 I'm not using devfsd and haven't been since I installed Gentoo. - -- ^^^ Kurt There is no good nor evil; there is only power. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/CXbR0cAvx3ELfKARAuOAAJ9DSfGiDG2IjQp+Vr5MIDZfaDFi9gCdGI2v UQ9errOncNDcAqfVGnt0iOk= =vu6h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
