ktb wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been > > > mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't > > > access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an > > > empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not > > > the case. I've been mounting Redhat with the following line in > > > /etc/fstab, > > > > > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 > > > > > > I've also tried, > > > > > > mount -a -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh > > > > > > after looking at the 'mount' man page and that didn't change anything. > > > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > > Thanks, > > > kent > > > > I once ran into a similar problem when I was trying to install from a > > Win95 partition, and then after having a working system deleting the > > Win95 partition and reclaiming it as my / partition. During the moving > > of the files, I had to do some fancy footwork in > > mounting/moving/unmounting, and a few times I'd wind up with a mounted > > directory that was empty even though I "knew" it had files in it. A bit > > more mounting/umounting and soon the files showed up again. At the time > > I was able to figure out what was happening, but I've forgotten now. I > > only mention this in the hope that it'll click in the clue that you need > > in order to figure out what's happening. > > I have found I can mount Redhat's /home/kent directory directly with the > following line in /etc/fstab, > > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/redhat ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 > > I just don't understand why it doesn't show up in the directory tree > when I mount the '/' partition. Muttering to myself... > kent >
I suspect that when you're mounting /, you don't have a separate partition for /mnt, and I believe /mnt is part of the default directory structure. Therefore it's getting "mounted" as part of /, and is therefore clobbering your /mnt/redhat mount. It's hard to say without having a better idea of your entire partitioning structure. You might try creating a new mount point instead of /mnt/redhat, say something like /redmnt/redhat, and see if that has any effect.
