Fedora 8 Test 2 on an Inspiron 9300

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 08:10 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 13:04 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 07:42 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:05 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Also, this is an old issue I've never raised, but I have a partition
> > > > which I mount as '/var/www'.  Each time I install fedora, it incorrectly
> > > > guesses this partition as having been '/var' and not '/var/www'.  Is
> > > > this a bug?
> > > 
> > > > The disk mounter applet is showing mountable partitions
> > > > including /, /var/www (which is lists as /var), /boot and /mount/vmware.
> > > > The former too are not mounted and are actually part of my f7 install.
> > > > I'm not sure if this is a feature or not.
> > > 
> > > Can you perform df -h to show mounted systems and see what it lists?  It
> > > *should* show / /var AND /var/www as those *should* be seperate.  Paste
> > > the exact output to see what it is showing?
> > 
> > 
> > It doesn't show both /var and /var/www, if shows just var.  However,
> > what I have mounted is /var/www.
> > 
> > [rodd at localhost ~]$ df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda9             9.5G  3.2G  5.8G  36% /
> > /dev/sda7             7.6G  1.2G  6.1G  16% /var/www
> > /dev/sda6              29G   26G  1.6G  95% /home
> > /dev/sda2             9.2G  3.1G  5.7G  36% /mnt/vmware
> > tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/sr0              2.8G  2.8G     0 100% /media/Fedora 7.91 i386 DVD
> > [rodd at localhost ~]$ 
> > 
> > Past versions of fedora having shown any of these .  / or /boot are
> > actually part of my other fedora install on the same machine.  The root
> > partition for this install is labeled /1 and boot is a part of /1.
> 
> I think I misread your original problem before.  Are you stating that
> while doing the install, in what you had as /var/www (as in original
> install) while setting up partitions, that when you go to edit that one,
> it showed as /var instead of /var/www?

Yes, this is what happens.  I can add the /www to /var, but it always
makes me wonder why it doesn't just appear as /var/www (as it had been
mounted last time).
> 
> I think I have witnessed what you do, as in /boot, /, and /home
> sometimes show up as /boot1, /1, and /home1.  I never knew why/how it
> did that.

I usually have two installs of fedora on my laptop.  One is the current
stable (which I often use until test2) and the other is rawhide (which I
usually adopt around test2).  They toggle from partition to partition
since I'll upgrade rawhide to f8 and then f7 will become rawhide (hope
that makes sense).

Both installs use the same /var/www, /mnt/vmware, /home and swap
partitions and I have separate / and /boot partitions for one install,
and a / partition which includes /boot for the other.  Since fedora uses
labels, it labels the second / as '/1'.

What's happening is I'm seeing some of my already mounted partitions
(/var/www and /mnt/vmware) and I'm also seeing the / and /boot
partitions (not mounted) from the other install.  I'm not sure I want to
be seeing partitions from the other install and I know I don't need to
be seeing partitions that are mounted as part of the filesystem I'm
using.  Strangely, I'm not seeing /home in the list.


R.


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