On Friday 26 November 2004 16:46, Paul F. Johnson wrote: >Hi, > >> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:33:34PM +0000, Paul wrote: >> > My entire /usr directory is completely empty! It was working, I >> > did a reset and on restart, I started to get all sorts of >> > errors, the drives didn't mount and on checking, /usr is devoid >> > of absolutely everything! >> >> Is /usr empty because it didn't mount. Don't panic until you've >> checked the partition tables and fsck > >Everything other than /usr is fine. The only thing which doesn't > look right is that in fstab, the line for user is LABEL=/usr, > whereas everything else is /var (and so on). > >How do I check the partition tables? Remember, I have nothing in > /usr > >TTFN > >Paul > This sounds as if you had it setup with labels, but are not using an initrd now, which is required to run labels as opposed to direct pointers such as /dev/hda7. If you know which partition was the one that has the /usr on it, and you can do that with experimental mounts to /mnt/someplace, (after a mkdir /mnt/someplace) then mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/someplace, then do an ls on it and see if thats /usr, if not, umount it, and try /dev/hda2 etc until you find the /usr partition. When you find it, get rid of that LABEL= crap in your fstab and use that instead. When its fixed, reboot. >-- >Get your free @ukpost.com account now >http://www.ukpost.com/ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.