On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:53, Ian Brandt wrote: > 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...
Interesting... A 'cat /proc/mounts' like John suggest would be helpful, before and after attempting to mount stuff, also try the mount manually. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/somethingthatexistsbutisntbeingused. > 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 No, as swap isn't "mounted", you can easily live without swap for a while though, so just comment it out. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
