Cant see the partitions

SBN · 11-14-2011, 02:10 PM

Hi Guys,

Im new to Gentoo I just installed it in my virtualbox,

Im just wondering why df is not showing my partitions as in fstab:

Quote:

GEN ~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 7.3G 2.7G 4.3G 39% /
/dev/root 7.3G 2.7G 4.3G 39% /
rc-svcdir 1.0M 40K 984K 4% /lib/rc/init.d
udev 10M 172K 9.9M 2% /dev
shm 122M 0 122M 0% /dev/shm
GEN ~ # cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed); notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
GEN ~ #

acid_kewpie · 11-14-2011, 02:17 PM

it is. the only conventional filesystem you have is /dev/sda3, which is mounted at /.

SBN · 11-14-2011, 03:03 PM

How come its not it has different path? and where is my /boot?... is this just part of the gentoo design?

acid_kewpie · 11-14-2011, 03:18 PM

/boot has no need to be mounted. it is never used as part of the running operating system. It should only be mounted if you wish to make changes to the bootloader config etc.

syg00 · 11-14-2011, 05:16 PM

Hmmm - I beg to differ.
I am constantly referring to the kernel config, even on non-gentoo systems.

Been a while since I built a gentoo, but I might also expect /boot to be mounted in that scenario. A trip through dmesg might be in order.

acid_kewpie · 11-15-2011, 01:48 AM

Well there are always exceptions to any rule.

segmentation_fault · 11-15-2011, 06:12 AM

Quote:

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2

I think this is why your /boot is not mounted.
If you type

Code:

$ sudo mount /boot

it should be mounted.
If you want it automounted at every boot, remove the noauto option.

SBN · 11-15-2011, 04:20 PM

Hi Fault,

I did change it to defaults but still same ouput from df.

Is that ok for gentoo?

acid_kewpie · 11-15-2011, 04:33 PM

you are not meant to mount /boot by default according to Gentoo's best practises, that's *exactly* why "noauto" was in there in the first place. You are free to change it if you want, but when did you last need to change it? By not mounting it, you're reducing the chance of anything going wrong with that filesystem which could cause boot issues.

i92guboj · 11-16-2011, 12:05 AM

If you want it to be mounted, modify your fstab accordingly and reboot.

If all you need from /boot is your config, please, enable the relevant option in your kernel build and pick it from /proc/config.gz instead.

segmentation_fault · 11-16-2011, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SBN

Hi Fault,

I did change it to defaults but still same ouput from df.

Is that ok for gentoo?

Did you reboot after the change? If you did and it's still not automounted, then I think there is a problem.
However, as mentioned, you should mount /boot only if you need to messup with your boot loader (eg install a new kernel).

SBN · 11-19-2011, 06:20 PM

Yup after reboot it is still not mounted, but that ok now. However my root partition is showing /dev/root and not the one in the fstab like the other linux distro?

acid_kewpie · 11-20-2011, 02:11 AM

you have no problems. Everything is fine. just use your system.