hi i have the same issue (i have IDE- drives) on one server, it's mounted as root and on the other, it's mounted as /dev/hda5 i installed both with the same liveCD.
because i wrote a tiny script that reads the available hdd space on both servers (to display it on web with php), i did adjust /etc/mtab manually (it wasn't nice to see /dev/root on the web, i prefered /dev/hda5) i don't know if the changes remain after a reboot. I can't explain why it's mounted as /dev/root, i'm just telling that i've got the same issue... greets from switzerland -----Original Message----- From: Brian Downey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Mounting as /dev/root Hey folks, It's not a very big issue that I'm having here, just one that'd I'd like to be able to explain the behavior of. One of my servers is mounting '/dev/sda3' as '/dev/root' instead. Pretty bizzare. Here's the output of `df`: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 8119776 2930244 4777064 39% / /dev/sdb1 35001508 11298308 21925208 35% /home none 452068 0 452068 0% /dev/shm And the relevant section of `/etc/fstab`: # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /home ext3 noatime 0 0 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 both symlinks are pointing to the correct device: # ls -al /dev/sda3 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Aug 16 14:03 /dev/sda3 -> scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 # ls -al /dev/root lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Aug 16 14:02 /dev/root -> scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 Just curious why it would be showing as "/dev/root" when it should be mounting as "/dev/sda3". This is the only server I have that behaves like this... thanks! -brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
