On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 08:44:14PM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote: > Therefore I had to add the line "/dev/hdc2 /var ext2 rw 0 0" in my > /etc/mtab file again. Otherwise this operation won't have any effect on > the /var filesystem
Don't edit /etc/mtab. Your edits for mount points should only be in /etc/fstab. It should probably look like: /dev/hdc2 /var ext2 defaults 0 2 You may want to change the options from defaults... > > > $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc2 /var # mount /dev/hdc2 on /var > > This worked ;-) > > > $ ls /var # list the contents of var > > I can list the contents of my filesytem. > > $ mount # another way to get a list of what's mounted > > The /var partition isn't in the list of mounted partitions Well, that is a problem. If mount doesn't know it's mounted, how can it umount -a at system shutdown? (Rhetorical question) So, you do have an empty directory on the root partition called 'var'? And, you have an entry to mount it in /etc/fstab? If both of those are the case, then I'm at a loss why when you mount it, it doesn't show up in /etc/mtab. Anyone? -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
