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- From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Mounting /usr on hda3 - help? Used to work, now doesn't...
- Message-ID: <KFOGEL.92Sep5163304@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 21:33:04 GMT
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
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- This is with v0.96c, on a 386/40 with a 240 meg hard drive.
- The first 108 or so meg partition (/dev/hda1) is all DOS. Then hda2 is
- 63 or so megs of linux root, and then hda3 is another 63 of /usr. If
- I do not use hda3 as /usr and jus le it lay idle, then everything
- works fine and there are no problems at all, except lack of space.
- If I *do* use hda3 as /usr, then the following problems
- appear:
- - X does not work -- it hangs after a little mouse movement
- and ctl-alt-backspace is the only way out. Mouse buttons do not work.
- - sync dumps core in the /dev directory, same size each time.
- - df tells me that / and /usr are mounted respectively on hda2
- and hda3 ... but it also says they're the same size and are filled to
- the same exact percentage. I think df is getting it's information
- entirely from the root partition; even though it tells me that it's
- reporting hda2 and hda3, it's really only showing /dev/hda2. Here is
- one interesting thing: if I boot with no hda3 mounted (/usr is on hda2
- like everything else), but change my /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab to what
- they would be if I were mounting hda3 as /usr, afterwards df will report
- that /usr is mounted on hda3. Is this normal?
- My /etc/fstab looks like this:
-
- /dev/hda2 / minix defaults
- /dev/hda3 /usr minix defaults
-
- My /etc/mtab looks like this:
-
- hda2 / minix defaults 2 62914336
- hda3 /usr minix defaults 0 0
-
- I have a sneaking suspicion that I should make partition 3 of
- type extended, rather than Linux/minix, but that doesn't seem to work
- either. The "0 0" in my mtab also bothers me, should they be more
- informative numbers? If I mount hda3 as /usr, everything works except
- X Windows, and there's also that annoying core dump in /dev. But X is
- mighty important :-) ! Does anybody have any idea how to do this right?
- I did once upon a time have X working fine and hda3 mounted on /usr
- and all was good and beautiful. The problems came after I tried to install
- more memory and got some parity errors. Alhough I have since put my original
- memory back in and reinstalled Linux more than twenty times (!!!), it's
- never been the same. X will not work if /dev/hda3 is mounted *at all*,
- anywhere, even if I'm not running X or anything else from hda3. :-(
- Any ideas, folks? I have repartitioned my hard drive and reinstalled
- linux so many times now that I can do it with my eyes closed, but to no
- avail.
-
- --
-
-
- -Karl Fogel
-
- kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
- fogel@antares.mcs.anl.gov
-
-
- "I'm not lost... I know exactly where I'm not!"
-
-
- (Any opinions exressed are completely my own, and not
- necessarily those of Karl Fogel.)
-