On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:03, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > [internet@localhost internet]$ cat /proc/mounts > > > /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 > > > > .. > > > > > [internet@localhost internet]$ mount > > > /dev/hda7 on / type auto (rw) > > > > .. > > well :-) here's your answer. > > my guess also that "/dev/root" is a symlink to "/dev/hda7" > > you're root partition has gone nowhere. LOL > > BTW, nobody mentioned /etc/fstab. That's the first file that > would come to my mind. It's the one I edit when I change > things. If / doesn't appear there, something is probably > wrong.
[internet@localhost internet]$ ls /dev/root ls: /dev/root: No such file or directory New output: [internet@localhost internet]$ cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,noexec,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 user,owner,noexec,nodev,nosuid,ro,noauto 1 1 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/remove vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2kpro ntfs user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,umask=0 0 0 [internet@localhost internet]$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 5044156 3724768 1063156 78% / /dev/hda9 7746 3679 3667 51% /boot none 128004 0 128004 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdc1 6325240 4497848 1827392 72% /mnt/remove /dev/hda5 5124700 3474288 1650412 68% /mnt/win2kpro /dev/cdrw 605120 605120 0 100% /mnt/cdrw Yesterday, / was mounted as AUTO, which worked, but *df did not know how to threat it. I changed it to ext2, and it works. The kernel still identifies the / as ext3, (RTFM on that somehwre in the linux kernel documentation). - diego -- Between infinite and short there is a big difference. -- G.H. Gonnet ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]