Re: two /home directories?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: two /home directories?
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:01:34AM -0400, alex wrote:
> > I just finished a fresh install of Debian with / on hdb7 and a /home
> > partition on hda3. mtab verifies that /home is on hda3.
> >
> > How come there's also a /home still in the directory root /?
>
> That'd be the mount point. You need the directory there in order to
> mount something on it.
>
> > It doesn't appear in mtab.
>
> mtab only lists mount points, not directories.
>
> > If mtab recognizes that /home is on hda3, why does the command
> > cd /home bring up the other /home directory, the one under /
> > instead of the one under hda3?
>
> /etc/mtab isn't always kept up to date in certain situations, such as
a
> read-only root filesystem. Try /proc/mounts. You'll probably have to
> 'mount /home' or 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /home', but it should be
> possible to fix things such that this is done automatically.
>
> What's in /etc/fstab?
Here's my /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda3 /home ext2 rw 0 2
What does 'errors=remount-ro 0 1' mean? Is there something
wrong in /dev/hdb7?
>
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