On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:09 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 14:21 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: > > >> "Sees nothing?" > > > > Nothing: <ls> returns nothing at all, <dir> returms "0". > > ... > > > It's obvious to me that I misinterpreted the information on page "man > > fstab", and have not mounted these two partitions properly, because they > > do not appear at all in the df readout: > > > > ***** > > # df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda6 20161172 4263432 14873600 23% / > > udev 1027092 112 1026980 1% /dev > > /dev/sda7 30249960 432008 28281340 2% /home > > ***** > > ... > > > The pertinent lines of fstab are as follows: > > > > ***** > > /dev/sda12 /mnt/info jfs ro,noauto,user 0 0 > > /dev/sda13 /mnt/datafiles jfs ro,noauto,user 0 0 > > ***** > > > > They still make sense to me, but there must be a misunderstanding. How > > is this incorrect? > > Well... as I see it, it is correct. The partitions are not mounted because > you have not explicitly mounted them... > > Ie, the "noauto" keyword means that those two partitions will not be > mounted automatically, and thus the "/mnt/info" dir will be empty, > obviously, till you mount it.
Well, now we know which element it was that I didn't understand. Thank you... > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
