what does "cat /proc/mounts" say? On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:53, Ian Brandt wrote: > 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
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