Advice on creating new directory

satimis · 06-26-2005, 07:18 PM

Hi folks,

I have 'LFS' partition permanently mounted as;

# cat /etc/fstab

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda5               /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda6               /mnt/lfs                ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda7               /mnt/livecd             ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,f
........
......

# df -T

Code:

Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2     ext3    20161204   7329548  11807516  39% /
/dev/hda1     ext3      101086     11461     84406  12% /boot
none         tmpfs      127744         0    127744   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5     ext3     9621848   1704152   7428920  19% /home
/dev/hda6     ext3     5771468     44256   5434028   1% /mnt/lfs
/dev/hda7     ext3     1802600     35496   1675536   3% /mnt/livecd

According to following URL
http://www.sg.linuxfromscratch.org/l.../mounting.html

I proceeded
# mkdir -p $LFS /mnt/LFS
# mkdir /mnt/LFS/$LFS/usr

# ls -al /mnt/LFS/

Code:

total 24
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jun 27 07:40 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 Jun 27 07:39 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jun 27 07:40 usr

Only /usr is there, '$LFS' not found. Whether /mnt/LFS is '$LFS'?

TIA

B.R.
satimis

kjordan · 06-27-2005, 12:56 AM

If you did an "export LFS=/mnt/lfs" then yes, $LFS is /mnt/lfs. I'm not sure where you're getting this extra stuff from, it explicitly says mkdir $LFS and not mkdir /mnt/lfs $LFS. Although it would seem your LFS variable isn't set if you're able to do mkdir -p /mnt/lfs/$LFS/usr and not have it end up as /mnt/lfs/mnt/lfs/usr, since if it isn't set, it will just end up as /mnt/lfs//usr.

satimis · 06-27-2005, 01:19 AM

Hi kjordan,

Tks for your advice.

I ran following commands on Konsole;
$ echo $lfs
Empty output
$ echo $LFS
Empty output
$ echo LFS
LFS
$ echo lfs
lfs

I thinks I have to repeat
2.4. Mounting the New Partition on
http://www.sg.linuxfromscratch.org/l.../mounting.html

$ cat /etc/fstab

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda5               /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda6               /mnt/lfs                ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda7               /mnt/livecd             ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto    
......

Shall I delete following line from /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/hda6               /mnt/lfs                ext3    defaults        1 2

TIA

# ls -l /mnt/

Code:

total 32
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 May 22 22:52 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 May 22 22:52 cdwriter
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 May 22 22:53 floppy
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jun  2 11:41 lfs
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jun  2 11:41 livecd

# ls -l /mnt/lfs

Code:

total 16
drwx------  2 root root 16384 Jun  2 11:41 lost+found

B.R.
satimis

kjordan · 06-27-2005, 01:49 PM

The line in your fstab is alright if you want it automatically mounted at boot time when your host distro starts up. Also, you only need to mkdir the usr directory if you are wanting to mount a separate partition into /mnt/lfs/usr, otherwise it will be created later. All you really need to do is set your LFS variable, which is the top instruction "export LFS=/mnt/lfs"

satimis · 06-27-2005, 08:34 PM

Hi kjordan,

Quote:

The line in your fstab is alright if you want it automatically mounted at boot time when your host distro starts up.......

Noted with thanks

B.R.
satimis