On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:03, Christoph Bugel wrote:
> > > [internet@localhost internet]$ cat /proc/mounts
> > > /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
> >
> > ..
> >
> > > [internet@localhost internet]$ mount
> > > /dev/hda7 on / type auto (rw)
> >
> > ..
> > well :-) here's your answer.
> > my guess also that "/dev/root" is a symlink to "/dev/hda7"
> > you're root partition has gone nowhere. LOL
>
> BTW, nobody mentioned /etc/fstab. That's the first file that
> would come to my mind. It's the one I edit when I change
> things. If / doesn't appear there, something is probably
> wrong.
[internet@localhost internet]$ ls /dev/root
ls: /dev/root: No such file or directory
New output:
[internet@localhost internet]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda9 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,noexec,user,nodev 0 0
/dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 user,owner,noexec,nodev,nosuid,ro,noauto 1 1
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/remove vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win2kpro ntfs user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,umask=0 0 0
[internet@localhost internet]$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 5044156 3724768 1063156 78% /
/dev/hda9 7746 3679 3667 51% /boot
none 128004 0 128004 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1 6325240 4497848 1827392 72% /mnt/remove
/dev/hda5 5124700 3474288 1650412 68% /mnt/win2kpro
/dev/cdrw 605120 605120 0 100% /mnt/cdrw
Yesterday, / was mounted as AUTO, which worked, but *df did not know how to threat it.
I changed it to ext2, and it works. The kernel still identifies the /
as ext3, (RTFM on that somehwre in the linux kernel documentation).
- diego
--
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-- G.H. Gonnet
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