Re: Mounting 2nd Partition
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote:
> The first issue, do I have a swap partition activated and mounted? When I
> boot I get the message "activating swap partition" but shouldn't it be in
> 'etc/mtab', 'proc/mounts', and 'mount -t swap'?
no it shouldn't. swap partitions aren't really filesystems so they're
funny where mount and mtab is concerned.
Type 'free' and see how much swap space it says you have.
>
> The second issue, is a separate partition (hda6) which I have allocated the
> vast majority of my memory space to. This clearly doesn't exist at all.
> Trying to remedy this, I booted from my rescue disk, activated and mounted
> hda2 as root, then activated and mounted hda6 as usr2. After exiting the
> rescue disk and rebooting I did have a 'usr2' directory, but it was located
> in hda2.
>
> Also, in 'etc/init.d/boot' the command 'mount -avt nonfs, noproc' exists.
> (Possibly this is helpful information)
Don't edit your startup scripts unless you know what you're doing.
>
> Are there commands that I can use to permanently activate and mount
> partitions without using the rescue disk?
>
List the filesystem in /etc/fstab and if will mount at boot time (unless
you use the noauto option)
> When I do this, is it safe to mount hda6 as '/usr' or will this wipe out all
> the existing data on /usr in hda2? (The solution is to mount hda6 as usr2,
> 'cp usr usr2', then rename usr2 to usr somehow?)
>
It won't wipe out the data, it will cover it up though. As long as you
have something mounted on a directory the stuff in that directory is
hidden until you unmount the offending filesystem.
Here's the procedure....
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /usr2
cp -a /usr/* /usr2/ < confirm the options on this one >
Now edit your fstab to mount /dev/hda6 as /usr
shutdown -r now
this is all as root of course.
> Also, how do you exit the 'rescue' disk correctly? 'Cancel' always brings
> the menu screen up, so I end up just turning off the computer. Possibly
> this is why hda6 didn't get mounted.
>
Has nothing to do with why hda6 isn't mounting (see above). A shutdown -r
now should do it, or a control-alt-del
Nate
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