Re: Bug#60397: boot-floppies: deleting is not a good idea
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:01:21PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
>
> > Tomas Pospisek <tpo@spin.ch>:
> >
> > > I did not initialise any partitions. I did "Mount a previously initialised
> > > partition" or such (btw. not everything was erased - but /home in
> > > particular --was--).
> >
> > This isn't a case of the real contents of /home being hidden by /home
> > also being a mount point, is it?
> >
> > # umount /home && ls /home
>
> localhost:~# mount
> /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/hda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=tpo)
> localhost:~# umount /home && ls /home
> umount: /home: not mounted
>
> That's not the problem :-/ Thanks anyway :-)!
> *t
err, the old /etc/fstab (of your redhat setup) has been replaced during
the debian install... so this doesn't work anyway. check for unmounted
partitions (look at dmesg output for example or print out the partition
table using fdisk), e.g. /dev/hda6.
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