[quoted lines by Guest section DW on May 23, 2001, at 23:12]
>(i) Your version is ancient, but it might be good enough.
mount -V
mount: mount-2.9u
>(ii) Labels as used in "mount -L label" are ext2 labels only
>(well, xfs also works if I recall correctly)
I set the labels with e2label.
>(iii) I forgot to implement a crystal ball, so mount is not
>very good in divining [yes, that is related to the old
>indoeuropean words for god] where the devices are with a
>given label. However, it will try everything mentioned in /proc/partitions.
>In your case that is a very short list.
I presume that you're assuming that my /proc/partitions is empty because its
size shows as 0:
ls -l /proc/partitions
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 23 17:31 /proc/partitions
It does, however, have several lines in it.
cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running
use aveq
3 0 6297480 hda 119 141 520 1790 0 0 0 0 0 1180 1790
3 1 1534176 hda1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 2 1 hda2 1 0 2 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
3 3 96358 hda3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 4 1534207 hda4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 5 1052226 hda5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 6 1052226 hda6 1 0 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
3 7 208813 hda7 1 0 2 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
3 8 819283 hda8 115 141 512 1730 0 0 0 0 0 1120 1730
22 64 6297480 hdd 29218 300606 783536 808790 42553 89013 382004
2952210 0 599630 3763620
22 65 522081 hdd1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 66 1 hdd2 1 0 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
22 69 80293 hdd5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 70 401593 hdd6 161 30 382 2570 55 6 122 10590 0 7470 13160
22 71 1004031 hdd7 3000 54712 115428 76420 213 34 520 25520 0 60270
101940
22 72 200781 hdd8 1 0 2 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
22 73 120456 hdd9 1 0 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
22 74 883543 hdd10 4320 35159 78992 101950 8704 20252 59014 838820 0
149590 943220
22 75 128488 hdd11 2943 17697 165114 91090 2662 16775 155496 212510 0
143130 303600
22 76 208813 hdd12 1 0 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
22 77 1542208 hdd13 17758 192335 420202 515170 16930 5075 44786 1281640
0 363310 1796970
22 78 514048 hdd14 1031 673 3408 21500 13989 46871 122066 583130 0
166600 604640
Might my problem be that the kernel is showing its size as 0 even though it
actually does contain data?
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