On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:25:16PM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote: > > Perhaps you don't have an empty directory "var" on the root partition? > > Try booting into single user mode then, "$ mount /var". What happens? > > I added the following line manually to the /etc/mtab file : > /dev/hdc2 /var ext2 rw 0 0
That won't do you any good. > > When I restart with a boot-floppy distribution (tomsrtbt). > I typed fsck.ext2 /dev/hdc2 on the prompt there. And I got the message > that the drive is clean. > > When I restart my PC and I start the debian distribution. > I got on startup : > ... > /dev/hdc2 on /var type ext2 (rw) > ... > Parallelizing fsck version 1.15 (18 Jul 1999) > /dev/hdc2 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced > /dev/hdc2 555/26208 files (13.0% non-contiguous), 6862/104422 blocks > > After loggin in and doing "df", the /var filesystems still doesn't > appear. > > I really have no idea what the problem might be ... Did you try what I suggested? "$ telinit 1" to go to single user mode. $ umount -a # unmount all file systems in /etc/mtab except /proc $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc2 /var # mount /dev/hdc2 on /var $ ls /var # list the contents of var $ mount # another way to get a list of what's mounted $ cat /proc/mounts # and another $ du -s /var # summarized size of /var It is a little strange that it appears to get mounted at boot, but then doesn't show up. You're not getting any error messages? -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
