/usr has vanished completely!

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 26 November 2004 16:46, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:33:34PM +0000, Paul wrote:
>> > My entire /usr directory is completely empty! It was working, I
>> > did a reset and on restart, I started to get all sorts of
>> > errors, the drives didn't mount and on checking, /usr is devoid
>> > of absolutely everything!
>>
>> Is /usr empty because it didn't mount. Don't panic until you've
>> checked the partition tables and fsck
>
>Everything other than /usr is fine. The only thing which doesn't
> look right is that in fstab, the line for user is LABEL=/usr,
> whereas everything else is /var (and so on).
>
>How do I check the partition tables? Remember, I have nothing in
> /usr
>
>TTFN
>
>Paul
>
This sounds as if you had it setup with labels, but are not using an 
initrd now, which is required to run labels as opposed to direct 
pointers such as /dev/hda7.  If you know which partition was the one 
that has the /usr on it, and you can do that with experimental mounts 
to /mnt/someplace, (after a mkdir /mnt/someplace) then mount -t 
ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/someplace, then do an ls on it and see if 
thats /usr, if not, umount it, and try /dev/hda2 etc until you find 
the /usr partition.  When you find it, get rid of that LABEL= crap in 
your fstab and use that instead.  When its fixed, reboot.

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