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.
--
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