From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) Subject: Re: mount/df probs with extfs, SLS 0.99.4/0.99.5 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 16:41:04 GMT
In article <84433@hydra.gatech.EDU> gg10@prism.gatech.EDU (Gregory Lyle Galloway) writes:
>I have been using the extfs for a couple of months with no trouble.
>The system boots up fine and mounts both partitions by when I
>type "mount" I get:
>
> ~> mount
> /dev/hdb2 on / type minix ()
> ~>
>
>It incorrectly lists the type as minix instead of ext
Right, this is just /etc/rc silliness. If you look at /etc/rc you'll see that
it simply initializes /etc/mtab with your current root directory, and doesn't
put the type of it (thus mount assumes minix and no mount options, regardless
of what's in your /etc/fstab). In any case it's only an informational error,
which you can fix easily by making the initialization of /etc/mtab smarter
in /etc/rc.
>and does not list
>the /dev/hdb3 partition. When I type "df" I get:
>
> ~> df
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hdb2 65305 38131 27174 58% /
> ~>
>
>Again no mention of /dev/hdb3. If my cwd is on /dev/hdb3 and I type "df .":
>
> ~> df .
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> df: cannot find mount point for .
> ~>
Probably due to the same problem, you need to make sure that /etc/mtab is
getting the information on /dev/hda3 when mounted.
Cheers,
mdw
-- Matt Welsh, mdw@tc.cornell.edu "What are you doing, Dave?"