Amazing problem of /boot

W.H. Kalpa Pathum callkalpa at gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 12:31:59 UTC 2010


2010/6/12 W.H. Kalpa Pathum <callkalpa at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> On 06/12/2010 07:17 PM, Pallav Jain wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The output of the file /etc/fstab is:
>>>
>>> ********************************
>>>
>>> #
>>> # /etc/fstab
>>> # Created by anaconda on Mon Jun  7 06:08:04 2010
>>> #
>>> # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
>>> # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for
>>> more info
>>> #
>>> UUID=a1198e23-8da4-47c4-90f1-d516fef0b796 /boot
>>> ext3    defaults,noatime,nodiratime        1 2c
>>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root /                       ext4
>>> defaults,noatime,nodiratime        1 1
>>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap                    swap
>>> defaults,noatime,nodiratime        0 0
>>> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs
>>> defaults,noatime,nodiratime        0 0
>>> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts
>>> gid=5,mode=620        0 0
>>> #devpts options modified by setup update to fix #515521 ugly way
>>> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs
>>> defaults,noatime,nodiratime        0 0
>>> proc                    /proc                   proc
>>> defaults,noatime,nodiratime        0 0
>>> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
>>> tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
>>>
>>> **********************************
>>>
>>> and the command 'df' yields:
>>>
>>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
>>>                       95846180   3353804  91519788   4% /
>>> tmpfs                  1025444      4200   1021244   1% /dev/shm
>>> tmpfs                  1025444     18120   1007324   2% /tmp
>>> tmpfs                  1025444         0   1025444   0% /var/tmp
>>>
>> This shows that /boot has been "unmounted".
>>
>> So, really, everything is OK.  All you have to do is to type "mount
>> /boot" as root.
>>
>
> My system works fine. I have files inside /boot. And my fstab also
> doesn't show that /boot is mounted. As I know fstab only shows the
> mounted partitions. My /home is in a separate partition and it's there
> in fstab. But I haven't allocated a separate partition for /boot and
> it's not mentioned in fstab.
>
> So not having /boot in fstab doesn't indicate that it is not mounted
> nor it may be empty or such, isn't it?
>

OOps I got it all messed up. Pallav has an entry for /boot in fstab. I
didn't notice it earlier.

Extremely sry.
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