Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab
Daniel Bye
freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org
Tue Aug 15 16:34:54 UTC 2006
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 06:41:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I
> see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and
> given me access to "do whatever you want with the box", but their
> fstab has left me thirsty, wanting to know what's going on ...
>
>
> sp2817a# less /etc/fstab
> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
> /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/ad0s2 /home ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
>
> sp2817a# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a 2.9G 54M 2.6G 2% /
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/ad0s1g 15G 22K 13G 0% /home
> /dev/ad0s1e 248M 8.0K 228M 0% /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f 9.7G 1.9G 7.0G 22% /usr
> /dev/ad0s1d 6.8G 46M 6.2G 1% /var
> /dev/ad0s2 72G 22K 66G 0% /home
>
>
> Now, if someone can explain to me what the hell is being done with
> /home in this server... ;)
Erm, isn't it where your home directory will go? ;-p
It looks to me like it might be some species of typo, or possibly a
a lesser spotted oversight. You can easily enough create a new
mountpoint and edit /etc/fstab accordingly, as you have been given
carte blanche to do what you will... As it stands, I think ad0s2
will get mounted on top of ad0s1g, rendering it invisible and
inaccessible.
Dan
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