ext2_check_mount_point: No such file ...

Theodore Tso tytso at mit.edu
Sat Feb 14 14:36:42 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:39:59AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > However, both fsck and resize2fs complained
> > ext2_check_mount_point: No such file or directory while determining
> > whether /dev/md1 is mounted.
> > 
> > Adding the -f flag did not help.
> > 
> > There is no /etc/mtab file.
> > 
> > I realize this is all pretty dodgy, but is there a way I can deal with
> > this problem?  What file or directory is it looking for?
> 
> try "cp /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab" perhaps.  Maybe the tools should
> check both (if they don't already, I haven't actually checked yet)  :)

The tools do check both already.  So the easist solution is

mount -t proc proc /proc

							- Ted




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