Re: Amazing problem of /boot

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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Pallav Jain <b330bkn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> today i am amazed to see that my /boot folder is empty and i am unable to
> decide and generate the reason(s) for it, why suddenly is it happening, i my
> self not able to understand though i have installed fedora core 11 and
> updated all the packages via GUI, irrespective of the fact that whether the
> package could be of any utility or not for my usage.
>
> till yesterday everything was there okay and today /boot contents are
> missing only the empty directory /boot is there??
>
> The changes i did today:
>
> 1. Disabled the root login by uncommenting the second lines of the files:
> /etc/pam.d/gdm
> /etc/pam.d/gdm-password
>
> 2. Tried to improve the bandwidth, as per:
> http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Fedora11#Improving_your_bandwidth
>
> /etc/sysctl.conf edited, swappiness edited, noatime and nodiratime added in
> /etc/fstab
>
> 3. installed preload and implemented the improvements via tmpfs.
>
> I am amazed to see this THOUGH I AM ABLE TO LOGIN.
>
> The output of the file /etc/fstab is:
> UUID=a1198e23-8da4-47c4-90f1-d516fef0b796 /boot                   ext3
> defaults,noatime,nodiratime        1 2c
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root /                       ext4
> defaults,noatime,nodiratime        1 1
>
> and the command 'df' yields:
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
>                       95846180   3353804  91519788   4% /
> tmpfs                  1025444      4200   1021244   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                  1025444     18120   1007324   2% /tmp
> tmpfs                  1025444         0   1025444   0% /var/tmp

Thanks for the df output. I should have asked for it too.

Unless you need /boot for an administrative task (like generating an
initramfs or editing grub.conf), you don't need to have it mounted for
your system to run. There are even some sysadmins who unmount it
automatically.

Is the extra "c" in the fsck_pass field of /boot in your fstab or did
you add it by mistake when you posted your fstab? I doubt that this
could make /boot unmount, but you never know.

What is the output of
# blkid -c /dev/null -t UUID=a1198e23-8da4-47c4-90f1-d516fef0b796

and what is the output of
# mkdir /mnt/testboot
# mount -U a1198e23-8da4-47c4-90f1-d516fef0b796 /mnt/testboot
# ls -l /mnt/testboot
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