On Friday 26 November 2004 18:34, Brian Millett wrote: >> 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,ma >naged 0 0 >/dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder1 auto >pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,ma >naged 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. It would appear so, and I don't have any other ideas. -- 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.