From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESe3q-0006TC-05 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:18:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9KHF4Lq017826; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:15:04 GMT Received: from gimli.home.gaima.co.uk ([82.109.38.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9KHAm6R014006 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:10:49 GMT Received: (qmail 12815 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2005 18:13:24 +0100 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Oct 2005 18:13:24 +0100 From: Mike Williams To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:13:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <43567972.7000205@ianbrandt.com> <200510192346.00460.mike@gaima.co.uk> <4357CB80.4020505@ianbrandt.com> In-Reply-To: <4357CB80.4020505@ianbrandt.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510201813.23107.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j9KHAm6R014006 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j9KHF4MB017826 X-Archives-Salt: c82a5227-656b-4540-b353-c2f4aa586eac X-Archives-Hash: 45790e3ef9b61730f6dfccbb6df57b70 On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:53, Ian Brandt wrote: > Great suggestion. =A0Trying 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. =A0If I check there is no /mnt/gent= oo... Interesting... A 'cat /proc/mounts' like John suggest would be helpful, before and after= =20 attempting to mount stuff, also try the mount manually. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/somethingthatexistsbutisntbeingused. > Also, with this method of test, can I test mounting swap from > /dev/sda2? =A0In my existing fstab sda2 is mounted to "none". =A0Does i= t > make sense to do the following?... > > /dev/sda2 =A0 =A0/mnt/gentoo/swap =A0 =A0swap =A0 =A0sw =A0 =A00 0 No, as swap isn't "mounted", you can easily live without swap for a while= =20 though, so just comment it out. --=20 Mike Williams --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list