On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:48:03PM +0000, James wrote: > > I guesses but the / is blank? > > df <snip> > /dev/sda2 61438696 51276944 10161752 84% /mnt/gentoo/boot > /dev/sda3 61438696 51276944 10161752 84% /mnt/gentoo > > > /mnt/gentoo/boot is populated (mounted correctly) but the /dev/sda3 > which I'm guessing is / is empty ? > > Been a while since I had to recover a system so referals to good > docs are most welcome.... > > No to mention an automount capability with systemrescue?
Start by issuing "blkid" to determine what partitions are there. If you use -L with mkfs.<whatever> then you should have a label, such as this: peter ~ # blkid /dev/sda1: LABEL="root" UUID="73362905-79dc-4512-9518-4c040963f80e" TYPE="xfs" /dev/sda2: LABEL="boot" UUID="2559cf58-63fa-44d3-ac82-94514d4d3769" TYPE="xfs" /dev/sda3: LABEL="home" UUID="8d5d17c1-7f99-4a49-b256-4d075306e42e" TYPE="xfs" /dev/sda5: LABEL="swap" UUID="636e7622-4a10-43d2-b976-d37cc15da7fc" TYPE="swap" Then "mkdir /tmp/help" or whatever, and "mount /dev/<partition> /tmp/help/ and when you get the old / located, mount it first later. mount /dev/<old /> /mnt/gentoo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot It looks like sda2 and sda3 are identical, so you got something mounted wrong. Bruce -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ [email protected] 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
