On Friday 26 November 2004 19:05, Paul F. Johnson wrote: >Hi, > >> 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. > >I've altered fstab now so that /dev/hda5 is mounted as /usr and > chnaged LABEL=/ to /dev/hda. Made no difference. It looks like > fstab is just not being loaded. Thats patently incorrect, you must give it the partition number and even if /dev/hda was all one partition, it would still be /dev/hda1 if a filesystem has been made on it. >Anything held on another partition or drive other than /dev/hda1 or > /dev/hda2 is being ignored. > >Which package do I need to roll-back (I imagine it will be > initscripts) so my machine will fire up properly? > NDI. Since no one else has chimed in with a similar problem, what I described earlier is still the method I would use. >TTFN > >Paul > >-- >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.