finally i have decided to replace the editied /etc/fstab with the original one and then mounting /boot and then again carefully editing /etc/fstab for some speed improvement.
thanks. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: "W.H. Kalpa Pathum" <callka...@gmail.com> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:42:26 +0530 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>Thanks for the explanation. ********************************* Yes, thanks a lot. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:37:56 +0930 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>fstab holds the mount points for things that will be mounted, they may >>be, they may not be, but it tables where they will be, and how (unless >>the mounting function specifies different options). >>mtab shows the current mount points. >>-- >>[...@localhost ~]$ uname -r >>2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 >>Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I >>read messages from the public lists. ********************************* thanks tim. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@gmail.com> >>To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:49:05 -0400 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>I doubt that, diabetes and cataracts that go with 75 years are slowly doing >>their thing. >>As I suspected at any rate. Sam should be correct. ********************************* 75 years?? Yes, sam should be correct. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> >>To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:59:37 -0400 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>Thanks for the df output. I should have asked for it too. >>Unless you need /boot for an administrative task (like generating an >>initramfs or editing grub.conf), you don't need to have it mounted for >>your system to run. There are even some sysadmins who unmount it >>automatically. >>Is the extra "c" in the fsck_pass field of /boot in your fstab or did >>you add it by mistake when you posted your fstab? I doubt that this >>could make /boot unmount, but you never know. >>What is the output of >># blkid -c /dev/null -t UUID=a1198e23-8da4-47c4-90f1- >>d516fef0b796 >>and what is the output of >># mkdir /mnt/testboot >># mount -U a1198e23-8da4-47c4-90f1-d516fef0b796 /mnt/testboot >># ls -l /mnt/testboot ********************************* yes it may be unmounted, but i didn't append any things like, 'c' and that also in 'fstab' file, but i just tried to improve the bandwidth as shown at the page: http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Fedora11#Improving_your_bandwidth and i never knew that it would cause the automatic unmount of /boot and i see it empty afterwards. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:34:32 +0800 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>No problem.... I also think you've confused mtab with fstab. ********************************* yes, that seems to be. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: "W.H. Kalpa Pathum" <callka...@gmail.com> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:01:59 +0530 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>OOps I got it all messed up. Pallav has an entry for /boot in fstab. I >>didn't notice it earlier. >>Extremely sry. ********************************* Not a problem. Discussing the issues makes it easy. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: "W.H. Kalpa Pathum" <callka...@gmail.com> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:59:55 +0530 >>My system works fine. I have files inside /boot. And my fstab also >>doesn't show that /boot is mounted. As I know fstab only shows the >>mounted partitions. My /home is in a separate partition and it's there >>in fstab. But I haven't allocated a separate partition for /boot and >>it's not mentioned in fstab. >>So not having /boot in fstab doesn't indicate that it is not mounted >>nor it may be empty or such, isn't it? ********************************* while installing the fedora 11, i didn't creat any partitions, just installed automatically, so that created a confusion. and still it is. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:29:23 +0800 >>It points out that your eyesight is better than mine. >>And, as Sam pointed out, would explain why /boot isn't mounted. ********************************* editing /etc/fstab may cause this but i am not sure. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Sam Sharpe <lists.red...@samsharpe.net> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:16:46 +0100 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>The fstab man page says: >> The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems by the >> dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. If >> the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and dump >> will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped. >> The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to deter- >> mine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The >> root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other >> filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive >> will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will >> be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the >> hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero >> is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to >> be checked. >>So I believe that you've diagnosed the problem. "2c" isn't a valid >>option and may be throwing whatever parses the mount options at boot >>off. This might cause /boot not to mount, which isn't a big problem as >>it's only necessary to mount it when installing new kernels or editing >>grub.conf. Pallav should try removing the "c" from the end of that >>line and see if that corrects the problem. >>-- >>Sam ********************************* yes, i would remove that 'c' but i don't know why it is there, only i added was swappiness and the noatime and nodiratime. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@gmail.com> >>To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:11:19 -0400 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>And what precisely does this '1 2c' do? ********************************* i also don't know why it is there and how it came? ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> >>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:47:52 +0800 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>This shows that /boot has been "unmounted". >>So, really, everything is OK. All you have to do is to type "mount >>/boot" as root. ********************************* yes, but mounting it also gives some errors becuase may be fstab edited in wrong ways. ********************************* >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Pallav Jain <b330...@gmail.com> >>To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:47:26 +0530 >>Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot >>today i am amazed to see that my /boot folder is empty and i am unable to decide and generate the reason(s) for it, why suddenly is it happening, i my self not able to understand >>though i have installed fedora core 11 and updated all the packages via GUI, irrespective of the fact that whether the package could be of any utility or not for my usage. >>till yesterday everything was there okay and today /boot contents are missing only the empty directory /boot is there?? >>The changes i did today: >>1. Disabled the root login by uncommenting the second lines of the files: >>/etc/pam.d/gdm >>/etc/pam.d/gdm-password >>2. Tried to improve the bandwidth, as per: >> http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Fedora11#Improving_your_bandwidth >>/etc/sysctl.conf edited, swappiness edited, noatime and nodiratime added in >>/etc/fstab >>3. installed preload and implemented the improvements via tmpfs. >>I am amazed to see this THOUGH I AM ABLE TO LOGIN. >>The output of the file /etc/fstab is: ..............
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