Perhaps you didn't get a quick answer because your email was
confusing. For example, "Whe I unmounted the the fstab file modified:" is
hard to understand. I recommend you read and correct the messages you
write before sending them.
I'll guess the data for /boot is on the /dev/hda1 partition, and the
/dev/hda1 partition has LABEL=/boot. If I'm wrong, ignore the rest of
this paragraph. If I'm right, "mount /boot" should remount the partition
regardless of whether you say "LABEL=/boot" or "/dev/hda1" at the
beginning of the corresponding line in fstab. If /etc/fstab has
"LABEL=/boot /boot" then "mount LABEL=/boot" should also work, and if
/etc/fstab has "/dev/hda1 /boot ..." then "mount /dev/hda1" should work.
Even if you don't have a line for /boot in /etc/fstab, giving the command
"mount /dev/hda1 /boot" or "mount LABEL=/boot /boot" should work. In any
case "mount /dev/hda3" won't put the boot data on /boot because a) the
boot data is not in /dev/hda3 and b) /dev/hda3 is not what your fstab
specifies as what is to be mounted on /boot.
In order to see what the LABEL is on, say, /dev/hda1, do
"tune2fs -l /dev/hda1" and look for the "Filesystem volume name".
Similarly for /dev/hda3.
If /etc/fstab has no line beginning with "/dev/hda3", "mount
/dev/hda3" can't work because the mount command has no way to find out
where /dev/hda3 should be mounted. It might help to send the list your
/etc/fstab file so that people can tell more easily what you're talking
about.
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Mike Mapsnac wrote:
> I wanted to mount back to the system. I unmounted the partition in order to
> run fsck and than wanted to mount back.
>
> Whe I unmounted the the fstab file modified:
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> I edite the fstab file:
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> And mounted back the partition.
>
>
> I edite the fstab file:
> >From: redhat <redhat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:26:53 -0800
> >
> >Mike Mapsnac wrote:
> >
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>I unoumnted the partition and than try to mount back and got the error
> >>message:
> >>mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >>
> >>What is wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >>[root@localhost sbin]# umount /dev/hda3
> >>[root@localhost sbin]# mount /dev/hda3
> >>mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >>[root@localhost sbin]# df -h
> >>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >>/dev/hda8 34G 5.8G 27G 18% /
> >>none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm
> >>/dev/hda2 9.7G 34M 9.1G 1% /tmp
> >>/dev/hda6 9.7G 4.8G 4.4G 53% /usr
> >>/dev/hda5 9.7G 619M 8.6G 7% /var
> >>
> >>_________________________________________________________________
> >
> >Where are you trying to mount it to?
> >
> >mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/name
> >
> >where "name" is the name you want to call the device, such as data1, cdrom,
> >henry, external_drivew, whatever. And make sure you already have that
> >directory (/mnt/name) created before mounting.
> >
> >
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