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From: Javier Perez <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: systems partitions on /mnt
To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'd buy that theory if the directories at root where soft links or hard links to the /mnt/xxxx directories, but they are not. Watch this:
[root@pepewin ~]# cd /
[root@pepewin /]# ls -al
total 158
dr-xr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Sep 11 05:40 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Sep 11 05:40 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 9 04:46 .autorelabel
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 11 03:40 bin
dr-xr-xr-x. 6 root root 1024 Sep 9 05:12 boot
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 2011 cgroup
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:38 .config
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4280 Sep 11 05:40 dev
drwxr-xr-x. 153 root root 12288 Sep 11 05:40 etc
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 home
dr-xr-xr-x. 21 root root 12288 Sep 11 03:40 lib
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 May 13 14:42 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Sep 11 05:40 media
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Sep 11 05:18 mnt
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 182 root root 0 Sep 11 00:40 proc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 47311 Sep 11 05:40 .readahead
dr-xr-x---. 21 root root 4096 Sep 11 19:27 root
drwxr-xr-x 37 root root 1240 Sep 11 12:53 run
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 12288 Sep 11 03:40 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 selinux
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 srv
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Sep 11 00:40 sys
drwxrwxrwt. 28 root root 4096 Sep 11 19:27 tmp
drwxr-xr-x. 14 root root 4096 Sep 9 07:15 usr
drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 Sep 9 07:12 var
[root@pepewin /]#
/boot, /var and /home are at their proper mount points
Therefore, what are the /mnt/xxxx versions about? right now they do not have anything
[root@pepewin /]# ls /boot
config-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 initrd-plymouth.img
config-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 lost+found
config-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686 memtest86+-4.20
config-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 System.map-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
efi System.map-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
elf-memtest86+-4.20 System.map-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686
extlinux System.map-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
grub vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
initramfs-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.img vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
initramfs-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64.img vmlinuz-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686
initramfs-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686.img vmlinuz-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
initramfs-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64.img
[root@pepewin /]# ls /mnt/boot
[root@pepewin /]#
Javier
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From: Javier Perez <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: systems partitions on /mnt
To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'd buy that theory if the directories at root where soft links or hard links to the /mnt/xxxx directories, but they are not. Watch this:
[root@pepewin ~]# cd /
[root@pepewin /]# ls -al
total 158
dr-xr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Sep 11 05:40 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Sep 11 05:40 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 9 04:46 .autorelabel
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 11 03:40 bin
dr-xr-xr-x. 6 root root 1024 Sep 9 05:12 boot
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 2011 cgroup
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:38 .config
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4280 Sep 11 05:40 dev
drwxr-xr-x. 153 root root 12288 Sep 11 05:40 etc
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 home
dr-xr-xr-x. 21 root root 12288 Sep 11 03:40 lib
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 May 13 14:42 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Sep 11 05:40 media
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Sep 11 05:18 mnt
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 182 root root 0 Sep 11 00:40 proc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 47311 Sep 11 05:40 .readahead
dr-xr-x---. 21 root root 4096 Sep 11 19:27 root
drwxr-xr-x 37 root root 1240 Sep 11 12:53 run
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 12288 Sep 11 03:40 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 selinux
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 srv
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Sep 11 00:40 sys
drwxrwxrwt. 28 root root 4096 Sep 11 19:27 tmp
drwxr-xr-x. 14 root root 4096 Sep 9 07:15 usr
drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 Sep 9 07:12 var
[root@pepewin /]#
/boot, /var and /home are at their proper mount points
Therefore, what are the /mnt/xxxx versions about? right now they do not have anything
[root@pepewin /]# ls /boot
config-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 initrd-plymouth.img
config-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 lost+found
config-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686 memtest86+-4.20
config-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 System.map-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
efi System.map-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
elf-memtest86+-4.20 System.map-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686
extlinux System.map-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
grub vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
initramfs-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.img vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
initramfs-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64.img vmlinuz-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686
initramfs-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686.img vmlinuz-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
initramfs-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64.img
[root@pepewin /]# ls /mnt/boot
[root@pepewin /]#
Javier
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No. They are the mount points where the partitions are mounted
to. On you older system, you would have had a /boot and the
/boot partition would have been mounted to that point.
I haven't setup Fedora 15 with other than the default setting, but
would assume it is the same.
On 11 Sep 2011 at 4:38, Javier Perez wrote:
Date sent: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:38:31 -0500
Subject: systems partitions on /mnt
From: Javier Perez <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx>
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>
> Hi
> I have been googling but could not find anything useful yet.
>
> I am installing a new system.(FC15) from scratch.
> I created separate / , /boot , /var , /home partitions, taking into consideration that I had a large
> disk.
> I noticed that /mnt has boot, var and home directories which are not pointing at anything
> I do not remember having those on my old system (Fedora 14)
> Those directories would be created at their normal positions on the file tree.
>
> Currently, they are at their right positions working fine, but I find it weird to have directory stubs
> for them on /mnt.
>
> Is it safe to erase the stubs?
>
> [root@pepewin mnt]# cat /etc/fstab
>
> #
> # /etc/fstab
> # Created by anaconda on Fri Sep 9 04:30:24 2011
> #
> # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
> # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
> #
> UUID=fda4cfc1-574c-4bd2-903b-619c597f88ac / ext4 defaults 1 1
> UUID=26a6c209-c04f-46d4-894c-f409a962182b /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> UUID=7a089743-da14-4d09-ad56-38ee4ba69943 /home ext4 defaults 1 2
> UUID=1e4e08b5-8386-4731-9486-2d7874f90706 /var ext4 defaults 1 2
> UUID=0f17d854-5f2f-4d57-ad13-c6afb7d933d7 swap swap defaults 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> [root@pepewin mnt]#
>
> [root@pepewin mnt]# ls -al
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 May 18 06:33 .
> dr-xr-xr-x. 26 root root 4096 Sep 10 21:20 ..
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 boot
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 home
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 04:30 var
> [root@pepewin mnt]#
>
> =======
>
> thanks
>
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