ktb wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been > > > > > mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't > > > > > access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an > > > > > empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not > > > > > the case. I've been mounting Redhat with the following line in > > > > > /etc/fstab, > > > > > > > > > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 > > > > > > > > > > I've also tried, > > > > > > > > > > mount -a -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh > > > > > > > > > > after looking at the 'mount' man page and that didn't change anything. > > > > > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > kent > > > > > > > > I once ran into a similar problem when I was trying to install from a > > > > Win95 partition, and then after having a working system deleting the > > > > Win95 partition and reclaiming it as my / partition. During the moving > > > > of the files, I had to do some fancy footwork in > > > > mounting/moving/unmounting, and a few times I'd wind up with a mounted > > > > directory that was empty even though I "knew" it had files in it. A bit > > > > more mounting/umounting and soon the files showed up again. At the time > > > > I was able to figure out what was happening, but I've forgotten now. I > > > > only mention this in the hope that it'll click in the clue that you need > > > > in order to figure out what's happening. > > > > > > I have found I can mount Redhat's /home/kent directory directly with the > > > following line in /etc/fstab, > > > > > > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/redhat ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 > > > > > > I just don't understand why it doesn't show up in the directory tree > > > when I mount the '/' partition. Muttering to myself... > > > kent > > > > > > > I suspect that when you're mounting /, you don't have a separate partition > > for /mnt, > > and I believe /mnt is part of the default directory structure. Therefore > > it's getting > > "mounted" as part of /, and is therefore clobbering your /mnt/redhat mount. > > It's hard > > to say without having a better idea of your entire partitioning structure. > > > > You might try creating a new mount point instead of /mnt/redhat, say > > something like > > /redmnt/redhat, and see if that has any effect. > > I had tried something like that and did again but still can't see > /home/kent. Here is how my disk is partitioned. Don't laugh too hard. > This is my first install with two os's on one drive. I was winging it a > little:) > > Redhat > hdb1 / > hdb5 /usr > hdb6 /home > hdb7 /usr/local > hdb8 /var > hdb9 swap > > Slink > hdb3 / > hdb13 /usr > hdb12 /usr/local > hdb11 /home > hdb10 /var > > Thanks, > kent >
I believe /mnt is a subdirectory of the / partition, so when you're running Slink, /mnt is mounted on /dev/hdb3; therefore it doesn't "see" anything on /hdb6, because /hdb6 hasn't been mounted anywhere. When you mount /hdb6 as /mnt/redhat, it becomes "visible". If you wanted, you could create a symbolic link to /mnt/redhat/home/ktb to /home/ktb/redhat, then all your home files would be "in" the (more-or-less) same place.
