Mike Williams wrote: > Kinda, yes. > Add /dev/sdXY entries, but under someother directory, /mnt/gentoo for example. > i.e. > > /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo auto noatime 0 1 > /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot auto ro,noatime 0 0 > etc, etc > > The mount -a, and see what happens.
Great suggestion. Trying it I got a rather odd result: # mount -av mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/gentoo/ mount: none already mounted on /dev/shm mount: mount point /mnt/gentoo/boot does not exist My main curiosity is the first one. If I check there is no /mnt/gentoo... # ls -al /mnt/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 192 Oct 20 12:20 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 480 Jan 5 2005 .. drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 344 Nov 5 2002 .init.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 22 2004 .keep drwx------ 2 root root 72 Feb 26 2004 cdrom drwx------ 2 root root 72 Feb 26 2004 floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Jan 8 2004 lfs So how could /dev/sda3 already be mounted there? I tried creating a new path, /mnt/boottest and /mnt/boottest/boot, and I get the same thing: mount -av mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted on /mnt/boottest/boot mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/boottest/ But again if I look under /mnt/boottest and /mnt/boottest/boot they're both empty? And attempts to umount fail: # umount /mnt/boottest/boot umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted umount /mnt/boottest/ umount: /dev/sda3: not mounted umount: /dev/sda3: not mounted Also, with this method of test, can I test mounting swap from /dev/sda2? In my existing fstab sda2 is mounted to "none". Does it make sense to do the following?... /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo/swap swap sw 0 0 Thanks, Ian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
