What on earth is mounted?

[Gabriel VLASIU]

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On Wed, 25 May 2011, Tom Horsley wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:17:14 -0400
> From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: What on earth is mounted?
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> I was checking to see if I had everything mounted that I wanted
> in a newly genned f15 system, and I see this insanity in
> the output from running "mount":
> 
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda2 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda2 on /var/tmp type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
> /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered)
> 
> Where on earth do those /tmp /var/tmp and /home entries come from?
> They certainly aren't all mounted on top of the same filesystem root.
> There are no entries for them in /etc/fstab. What is going on?
> 
> They also all show up with identical free space entries in the
> output from the df command.
> 
> This is just wayyyy confusing.
> 
> Can I make it stop somehow and leave them as ordinary subdirectories
> as they have always been?
I had the same problem. Very annoying!

So I switch back to upstart (yum install upstart), made some minor tweaks 
(created directory /var/run/dbus so messagebus will start, removed 
/etc/mtab link, touch /etc/mtab, touch /etc/init.conf, added 
id:5:initdefault: to /etc/inittab), added init=/sbin/upstart to grub.conf 
and everything work fine now!



Gabriel

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