/dev/hda5 /usr defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr/local/ defaults 0 0
You will then get them proper.
You need to remove any file in /usr/local/ when the REAL filesystem is
not mounted, as that would be space used on /usr and not be available or
usable since it is overlayed by another filesystem
Thank you. Your guess about my fstab file was, of course, correct, and your solution exactly what I was looking for. All healed now, and another little piece of information added to my growing body of linux minutia! Question: I see that some people recommend creating a /boot filesystem as the first filesystem on the drive. Would this then subsume the / filesystem in the same way until one could get in and manually correct the ordering in fstab? It seems like that would interfere with the installation procedure. -bluejack