Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

ktb wrote:
> 
> I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD.  I've been
> mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't
> access /home/kent.  I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an
> empty directory.  /usr is also shown to be empty.  This is clearly not
> the case.  I've been mounting Redhat with the following line in
> /etc/fstab,
> 
> /dev/hdb1       /mnt/rh     ext2   noauto,rw,nouser 0 0
> 
> I've also tried,
> 
> mount -a -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh
> 
> after looking at the 'mount' man page and that didn't change anything.
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> Thanks,
> kent

I once ran into a similar problem when I was trying to install from a
Win95 partition, and then after having a working system deleting the
Win95 partition and reclaiming it as my / partition. During the moving
of the files, I had to do some fancy footwork in
mounting/moving/unmounting, and a few times I'd wind up with a mounted
directory that was empty even though I "knew" it had files in it. A bit
more mounting/umounting and soon the files showed up again. At the time
I was able to figure out what was happening, but I've forgotten now. I
only mention this in the hope that it'll click in the clue that you need
in order to figure out what's happening.