[NTLUG:Discuss] Major tumble

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

I had to do that when I was playing with automount.  Do a force mount of /root,
remove the mtab file, sync and reboot.





Brian <briank at hex.net> on 09/08/99 09:30:14 AM

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Subject:  [NTLUG:Discuss] Major tumble



My Linux box took a major tumble last night.  Apparently, things went
haywire on the SCSI bus while I was scanning on one of the SCSI devices,
and lots of random bits got dumped onto my SCSI drive (at least this was
the appearance from all the inodes that needed repairing, and all the
new file owners I now have).  At any rate, I am now dumped
unceremoniously into single-user mode during the boot sequence,
immediately after the SCSI bus is initialized.

In an attempt to regain some semblance of normalcy, I noticed the system
still believes all of my partitions are mounted, via /etc/mtab no
doubt.  Can I simply delete this file, and will mount re-create it?  Or
should I delete all the entries in it except for the root partition?

  --Brian


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