what happened to my mount points?

50l4r_fl4r3 · 01-27-2005, 09:44 PM

I recently bought a desktop computer with Debian Sarge preinstalled.
And there aren't any mount points!

I tried to mount a cd, and it didn't work, so I checked the /mnt file to see what the mount point was named, and it wasn't there! The /mnt file is empty!

Any ideas what might cause this? And how I could fix it?

tw001_tw · 01-27-2005, 10:02 PM

Post your /etc/fstab file

If /dev/hdc is suppose to be mounted at /mnt/cdrom, and the cdrom directory does not
exist, you need to make it. But So we aren't going into this blind, post your fstab.

-tw

50l4r_fl4r3 · 01-29-2005, 12:43 PM

thanks, I'll try that.

50l4r_fl4r3 · 01-29-2005, 02:27 PM

#
#<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults,0 1
/dev/cdrom, /cdrom, , auto, noauto,ro, 0, 0
/dev/fd0, /floppy, , auto, noauto, , 0, 0

some of the spacing might be a little off... but there's my fstab file.

winsnomore · 01-29-2005, 02:49 PM

"may be the dingo ate your mount point" ..:-))) couldn't resist .. { it's a seinfeld joke)

/mnt mounting is older .. LFS recommends cdrom/cdrecoder terminlogy ..
you have it listed the /dev/hdc is being moutned on /cdrom.
so it didn't go anywhere . it's just there.

50l4r_fl4r3 · 01-29-2005, 03:06 PM

I'm sorry, I'm new to Linux.

What do I type into the terminal to mount my cd?

tw001_tw · 01-29-2005, 03:26 PM

Quote:

/dev/cdrom, /cdrom, , auto, noauto,ro, 0, 0

This line says the CD should be mounted in /cdrom, not /mnt/cdrom.

So you can type either:
mount /dev/cdrom
(and it'll get mounted at /cdrom, if the directory /cdrom exists, otherwise you'll get an error)

or

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
(if you want it mounted in /mnt/cdrom/ - as convention says it should - but like I said, make sure
that directory exists.)

or

mount /dev/cdrom /some/other/path/
(where ever you want it)

-tw

50l4r_fl4r3 · 01-29-2005, 07:05 PM

Thanks, I'll tell you if that works.