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JP
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| I'll practice on something else for a while. this has bummed me out. Thanks all for your advice and encouragement, I'll come back to this in a couple of weeks maybe and see if things change for me .... between this and the sidux mess, I'm just tired of it all, I think I'll just use Puppy and Knoppix for a while. Thanks again, JP
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nukes
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:29 am Post subject: |
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ummm... the syntax of mount is:
mount /dev/devicenode /mnt/mountpoint
ALSO didn't linux switch from hdx to sdx?
so wouldn't it be
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hda1
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also, don't you have to bind /dev and /proc to the chroot before you mount it?
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jester
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| nukes wrote: | ummm... the syntax of mount is:
mount /dev/devicenode /mnt/mountpoint
ALSO didn't linux switch from hdx to sdx?
so wouldn't it be
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hda1
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also, don't you have to bind /dev and /proc to the chroot before you mount it? |
yep, and that's what I suggested in JP's other related thread
/dev/sdxy is for SCSI, SATA, and drives/devices coming of the usb bus - AFAIK, /dev/hdxy is still valid for an IDE drive
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nukes
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| depends if the kernel is using libata... they started doing that for ATA drives in 2.6.19 iirc. So depends on the kernel you're running and it's configuration. Look through dmesg and that will tell you.
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jbsnake
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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well... if you type mount without any parameters... you get a list of devices/blocks that are mounted (or a read out of /etc/mtab)
if you give it just one parameter, it looks for the rest of the info in /etc/fstab, which is why, typically, you end up with the error "xyz is not found in /etc/fstab or in /etc/mtab"
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2025 1:39 am Post subject: Use mount with 2 args - device and FS |
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| jbsnake wrote: | well... if you type mount without any parameters... you get a list of devices/blocks that are mounted (or a read out of /etc/mtab)
if you give it just one parameter, it looks for the rest of the info in /etc/fstab, which is why, typically, you end up with the error "xyz is not found in /etc/fstab or in /etc/mtab" |
Correct! I rarely mount manually with just one parameter unless the entry is in my fstab with the "auto" parameter, in which case, I may use a quick mounting tool such as kuikdisk or something like that.
From the command line, I am more likely to use | Code: | | sudo mount /dev/sda5 /media/disk1part5 |
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