ext2_check_mount_point: No such file ...

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Sat Feb 14 20:09:30 UTC 2009


Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:39 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Ross Boylan wrote:

...

>>> There is no /etc/mtab file.
>>>
>>> I realize this is all pretty dodgy, but is there a way I can deal with
>>> this problem?  What file or directory is it looking for?
>> try "cp /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab" perhaps.  Maybe the tools should
>> check both (if they don't already, I haven't actually checked yet)  :)
> 
> Thanks; that worked.  Unfortunately, after resizing the filesystem I had
> trouble resizing the underlying partitions.  I backed up, and now I'm
> going to do a fresh install.

Just to double check; did you have to mount /proc first?

-Eric




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