Hi > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 9:55 AM > From: "Reco" <recovery...@enotuniq.net> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue > Mode? > > Hi. > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Next, I entered Executive a shell in /dev/perfect-vg/root > > It's Superuser shell actually, not Supervisor/Executive one. > Thanks for pointing out my typo. > > Something has mounted your device elsewhere already.
I guess that when I used the USB-installer to boot my machine into Rescue Mode, the USB stick is mounted, yes? > A usual thing with the modern desktop environments. > Check the output of "mount" and "df -Th" and /dev/sdb1 will probably be > there. I'd like to see the output of these commands too, btw. > Output of mount is root@perfect:/# mount /dev/mapper/perfect--vg-root on / type ext4 (rw,relatime) devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=8137669k,nr_inodes=2034417,mode=755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1629756k,mode=755) root@perfect:/# Output of dh -Th is root@perfect:/# df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/perfect-vg/root ext4 36G 773M 33G 3% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 96K 1.6G 1% /run root@perfect:/# > If these are the full contents of /etc/fstab, it's incorrect. > In addition to the mountpoint you should specify a block device (or its > equivalent), filesystem type, mount points, dump/pass and that's the > least. Thanks for the mini instruction. I really appreciate it. > I.e. this line is wrong: > > /media/myusb > > This line is correct: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/usb auto defaults,nofail 0 0 > > "nofail" is really needed for removable devices, because whoever > designed systemd made an "interesting" decision to halt the boot process > (i.e. host is inaccessible by network, console access only) even if a > single filesystem mentioned in fstab fails to mount. > You may want to add "noauto" as well, see fstab(5). > I read fstab(5). Unfortunately such man pages don't contain examples to illustrate the arguments and options. > >
