Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI

[John Jolet <john@jolet.net>]

what does "cat /proc/mounts" say?
On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:53, Ian Brandt wrote:
> Mike Williams wrote:
> > Kinda, yes.
> > Add /dev/sdXY entries, but under someother directory, /mnt/gentoo for
> > example. i.e.
> >
> > /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo auto noatime 0 1
> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot auto ro,noatime 0 0
> > etc, etc
> >
> > The mount -a, and see what happens.
>
> Great suggestion.  Trying it I got a rather odd result:
>
> # mount -av
> mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/gentoo/
> mount: none already mounted on /dev/shm
> mount: mount point /mnt/gentoo/boot does not exist
>
> My main curiosity is the first one.  If I check there is no /mnt/gentoo...
>
> # ls -al /mnt/
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 192 Oct 20 12:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 480 Jan  5  2005 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 344 Nov  5  2002 .init.d
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   0 Oct 22  2004 .keep
> drwx------   2 root root  72 Feb 26  2004 cdrom
> drwx------   2 root root  72 Feb 26  2004 floppy
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Jan  8  2004 lfs
>
> So how could /dev/sda3 already be mounted there?
>
> I tried creating a new path, /mnt/boottest and /mnt/boottest/boot, and
> I get the same thing:
>
> mount -av
> mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted on /mnt/boottest/boot
> mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/boottest/
>
> But again if I look under /mnt/boottest and /mnt/boottest/boot they're
> both empty?  And attempts to umount fail:
>
> # umount /mnt/boottest/boot
> umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted
> umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted
>
> umount /mnt/boottest/
> umount: /dev/sda3: not mounted
> umount: /dev/sda3: not mounted
>
> Also, with this method of test, can I test mounting swap from
> /dev/sda2?  In my existing fstab sda2 is mounted to "none".  Does it
> make sense to do the following?...
>
> /dev/sda2    /mnt/gentoo/swap    swap    sw    0 0
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian

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