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

[ktb <xyf@inetnebr.com>]

Kent West wrote:
> 
> 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.

I have found I can mount Redhat's /home/kent directory directly with the
following line in /etc/fstab,

/dev/hdb6       /mnt/redhat     ext2   noauto,rw,nouser 0 0

I just don't understand why it doesn't show up in the directory tree
when I mount the '/' partition.  Muttering to myself...
kent