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| From | David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? |
| Date | 2023-04-20 00:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <GmojD-3ags-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <GmdRf-347G-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <GmmhP-394m-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <GmndT-39D9-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <Gmnxg-39KT-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <Gmo9X-3ad8-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On 4/19/23 15:03, David Christensen wrote: > On 4/19/23 14:26, Default User wrote: >> On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 14:03 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >>> On 4/19/23 13:06, Default User wrote: >>>> On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 18:07 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > >>>>> Perhaps update-initramfs is necessary after restoring of >>>>> /etc/fstab >>>>> in >>>>> any chosen approach. > >>> But, I cannot address Max's point about initrd(4). >>> >>> >>> At this point, I would run my daily backups, use an editor to put the >>> original /etc entry back into /etc/fstab, forget about messing with >>> /etc >>> on either file system, and reboot. After reboot, I would run 'df >>> /etc' >>> and check where /etc is mounted. If /etc is "Mounted on /", I would >>> run >>> update-initramfs(8), reboot, and look again. > >> I'm afraid I don't quit understand why 'If /etc is "Mounted on /", I >> would run update-initramfs(8), reboot, and look again." >> >> >> Shouldn't etc always be expected to be mounted under /, as in /etc? >> For example, right now on my computer: >> >> df /etc >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/nvme0n1p2 23854928 5841492 16776344 26% / > > > /etc is a subdirectory of the / directory on the Unix "one big file > system". > > > Some file system must be mounted at /. > > > Additional file systems must be mounted somewhere beneath /. Where they > are mounted is call the "mountpoint". Mountpoints are traditionally > subdirectories, and traditionally empty. When a file system is mounted > there, the root of that file system is visible as the contents of the > mountpoint. > > > On my system, the virtual device /dev/mapper/sda4_crypt has a mount > point of /. That file system contains a directory /etc. So, in the > Unix "one big file system", the directories / and /etc both come from > the file system on /dev/mapper/sda4_crypt. > > 2023-04-19 14:38:19 root@taz ~ > # df / /etc > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/sda4_crypt 11145M 7016M 3542M 67% / > /dev/mapper/sda4_crypt 11145M 7016M 3542M 67% / > > > AIUI you want the file system on the the partition /dev/nvme0n1p5 to be > mounted at /tmp. The way to do that is to put the relevant entry back > into /etc/fstab: > > UUID=6a105a72-f5d5-441b-b926-1e405151ee84 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2 > > And then reboot. > > >> And, would there be anything wrong with, either way, running update- >> initramfs? >> >> Would that be run as: >> >> sudo update-initramfs -uv >> >> ? > > > Unfortunately, more confusion -- there are two Linux "Initial ramdisk" > solutions with very similar names -- initrd and initramfs. Forget about > those for now. > > > I would add the /etc entry back into /etc/fstab, reboot, run 'df / > /etc', and see what happens. Correction: add the /tmp entry back into /etc/fstab > > > David >
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/etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-18 17:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-04-18 17:40 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-18 19:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-18 21:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2023-04-18 23:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-19 06:40 +0200
tmp on tmpfs Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 08:20 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-19 08:40 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-19 09:00 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs tomas@tuxteam.de - 2023-04-19 10:00 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 18:20 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-24 19:10 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 19:40 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 18:20 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 13:10 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-19 20:10 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:00 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-04-20 16:20 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-20 16:30 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-04-20 17:20 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 16:30 +0200
Re: tmp on tmpfs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-20 16:40 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-18 18:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-18 22:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-18 23:50 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-19 00:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 02:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 03:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-04-19 04:50 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 05:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-19 05:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-19 05:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 11:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 13:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 22:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 23:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 23:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-20 01:50 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 03:50 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2023-04-21 11:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-21 13:20 +0200
gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:00 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-20 15:40 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 20:40 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-04-20 22:10 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-21 00:50 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-04-21 01:10 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-21 19:50 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-04-20 15:40 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 17:30 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 20:30 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-22 08:40 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 22:50 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-21 00:50 +0200
Re: gitification (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-21 04:40 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-19 23:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 23:30 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 00:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 00:20 +0200
[SOLVED] Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 02:30 +0200
Re: [SOLVED] Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-20 03:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-21 17:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-22 00:50 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-22 17:30 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-23 04:00 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-23 06:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-23 10:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2023-04-24 18:30 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-25 15:00 +0200
old memory sticks (was Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-23 17:20 +0200
[SOLVED]: old memory sticks songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-24 03:50 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-04-20 15:10 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 17:20 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-21 06:30 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-21 06:50 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-20 16:30 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200
Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-19 22:40 +0200
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