> 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. No, there seems to be something that happened with yesterdays rawhide update. I just rebooted and got the message that my home dir did not exist. I went to a virtual term and looked to see what ws up. This is what I got: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 97M 18M 75M 20% /boot none 244M 184K 244M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 97M 18M 75M 20% /home Well that is weird. This is my fstab: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder1 auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 A ls of /home showed that it was empty. So I mounted it. and it was there. But I did not see anything in /boot. /boot is hda1, but / is hda2. The size for /boot is correct, but when I went to /boot it was empty. Looking at / showed that it was mounted as /boot. I mounted /boot ok, and the files are there, but the latest df shows: [bpm]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 97M 18M 75M 20% /boot none 244M 184K 244M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 26G 6.2G 19G 26% /home /dev/hda1 97M 18M 75M 20% /boot [bpm]$ cd / [bpm]$ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on - 9.7G 5.2G 4.0G 57% / So I'd say something is rotten. -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn