Take a look at this discussion thread. Seems like you are not the only one that's had this problem.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/70700 Owen On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:00, Peter Long wrote: > Owen Berry wrote: > > Peter, > > > > I'm using LVM (not LVM2) on Gentoo and set everything up at install > > time. I fumbled my way through a combination of the standard > > installation instructions and an LVM installation guide for Gentoo > > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm.xml). > > > > My /, /boot and swap partitions are not on LVM, to assist in recovery. > > This was really useful to me as I stuffed things up at least once during > > the install, but was able to recover and fix things using a LiveCD. I'm > > sure it'll be useful at some stage down the road as well. The author of > > the above document makes similar recommendations. > > > > Owen > > Well, after following the advice I received on the list I finally have > gentoo booting and using LVM2. Thanks a lot! > > However I have noticed something odd: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] petelong $ mount > /dev/hde3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) > /dev/hde3 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime) > <snip> > > My root partition which is ext3 is mounted twice. Once as ext3 and once > as ext2. According to my /etc/fstab entry it should be ext3: > > /dev/hde3 / ext3 noatime 0 0 > > I suspect that it is mounted as ext2 by grub or the kernel at boot time. > Does anyone know how to get rid of the extra mount of the root file > system? > > -- > Peter Long -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
