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gboutwel
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 Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:46 pm Post subject: Install instructions & fstab probs |
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I did as directed by the install, but I'm having problems with my partitions
/dev/hda1 is /boot, and ext3
/dev/hda3 is /, and ext3
/dev/hda3 is getting mounted, but /boot is not.
I have to manually mount /boot to see it.
The other problem is the fstab say the /dev/shm is where tmpfs is expected for glibc 2.2, but it's geting mounted to /mnt/.init.d How do I correct this?
/etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
#tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs
Thanks
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | /dev/hda3 is getting mounted, but /boot is not.
I have to manually mount /boot to see it. |
This is quite normal; you don't need /boot while running the OS unless you want to install a new kernel or configure grub. If it's not mounted, you can't screw it up. 
| Quote: | The other problem is the fstab say the /dev/shm is where tmpfs is expected for glibc 2.2, but it's geting mounted to /mnt/.init.d How do I correct this?
#tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs |
#tmpfs ....
means that line is commented out so I don't get your question. What does mount show? |
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: Install instructions & fstab probs |
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| gboutwel wrote: | | I have to manually mount /boot to see it. |
That is normal.
| Quote: | | /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2 |
the 'noauto' part is what prevents /boot from mounting automatically.
It is highly recommended that you do not set it to mount automatically.
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gboutwel
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| nrosier wrote: |
#tmpfs ....
means that line is commented out so I don't get your question. What does mount show? |
If I uncomment it I end-up with 2 tmpfs systems... a smal 19Meg tmpfs and a big /mnt/.init.d
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gboutwel
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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Ok. But that doesn't tell me how to make one sing tmpfs at /dev/shm
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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tmpfs is your virtual memory (RAM + disk). It can be mounted on all different directories. By default, Gentoo seems to mount it on /mnt/.init.d. If you look there, it looks like some housekeeping stuff. Doesn't need to be big.
Mounting tmpfs on /dev/shm is used for POSIX shared memory.
If you like, you could even mount it on /home/gboutwel and have all your files written to memory (and erased at the next boot  ) |
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