Re: Now lost boot dir
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> David Baron wrote:
>
>> $ cat /mnt/hdb2/etc/fstab
>> # ROOT/dev/sdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>> # BOOT/dev/sdb1 /boot ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2
>> /dev/sda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat auto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=david,gid=david 0 0
>> /dev/sda5 /mnt/hda6 vfat auto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=david,gid=david 0 0
>> /dev/sdc5 /mnt/hdb5 vfat noauto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=david,gid=david 0 0
>> /dev/DB-LVM/LV_USR /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
>> /dev/DB-LVM/LV_VAR /var ext3 defaults 1 2
>> /dev/DB-LVM/LV_HOME /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> I'm really confused. As I've said before, I don't know anything about LVMs,
> so that may be part of the problem. But I don't see anything mounted as /.
> I also see a bunch of stuff that is confusing. I see stuff mounted on pass 0,
> for example, that I would expect to see mounted on pass 2. And you're not
> using any uuids in /etc/fstab. Maybe with this information, someone else
> who is familiar with LVMs can make sense of this.
/ and /boot are somehow commented out.
You don't need to use UUIDs for LVs because their names are persistent
and (hopefully!) unique.
>> $ ls -Al /dev/disk/by-uuid/
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 10:00 0e4daa81-9396-4257-850f-7a64732b64fd -> ../../hdb3
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 10:00 48F8-54A6 -> ../../hdb5
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 10:00 4C01-B501 -> ../../hda1
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 10:00 C366-1257 -> ../../hda5
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 10:00 cfec040e-ca65-432a-8e4e-68c2126a4f44 -> ../../hdb1
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 10:00 d0c33beb-b77a-4e77-ac0b-346161a1120a -> ../../hda4
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 30 10:00 df24bea0-5520-4281-b053-021bd5a96628 -> ../../hdb2
Do you have two or three disks?
There was a comment in your fstab that "second master is now on
/dev/hdc", which explains why you have sdc5 mounted on /mnt/hdb5 but
your root and boot are sdbX.
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