/usr has vanished completely!

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 26 November 2004 19:05, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> A ls of /home showed that it was empty.  So I mounted it. and it
>> was there.
>>
>> But I did not see anything in /boot.  /boot is hda1, but / is
>> hda2. The size for /boot is correct, but when I went to /boot it
>> was empty.  Looking at / showed that it was mounted as /boot.  I
>> mounted /boot ok, and the files are there, but the latest df
>> shows:
>>
>> [bpm]$ df -h
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda1              97M   18M   75M  20% /boot
>> none                  244M  184K  244M   1% /dev/shm
>> /dev/hda5              26G  6.2G   19G  26% /home
>> /dev/hda1              97M   18M   75M  20% /boot
>> [bpm]$ cd /
>> [bpm]$ df -h .
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> -                     9.7G  5.2G  4.0G  57% /
>>
>> So I'd say something is rotten.
>
>I've altered fstab now so that /dev/hda5 is mounted as /usr and
> chnaged LABEL=/ to /dev/hda. Made no difference. It looks like
> fstab is just not being loaded.

Thats patently incorrect, you must give it the partition number and 
even if /dev/hda was all one partition, it would still be /dev/hda1 
if a filesystem has been made on it.

>Anything held on another partition or drive other than /dev/hda1 or
> /dev/hda2 is being ignored.
>
>Which package do I need to roll-back (I imagine it will be
> initscripts) so my machine will fire up properly?
>
NDI.  Since no one else has chimed in with a similar problem, what I 
described earlier is still the method I would use.

>TTFN
>
>Paul
>
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