/usr has vanished completely!

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 26 November 2004 18:34, Brian Millett wrote:
>> On Friday 26 November 2004 16:46, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:33:34PM +0000, Paul wrote:
>>>> > My entire /usr directory is completely empty! It was working,
>>>> > I did
>>>>
>>>> a reset and on restart, I started to get all sorts of
>>>>
>>>> > errors, the drives didn't mount and on checking, /usr is
>>>> > devoid of
>>>>
>>>> absolutely everything!
>>>>
>>>> Is /usr empty because it didn't mount. Don't panic until you've
>>>> checked the partition tables and fsck
>>>
>>>Everything other than /usr is fine. The only thing which doesn't
>>> look right is that in fstab, the line for user is LABEL=/usr,
>>> whereas everything else is /var (and so on).
>>>
>>>How do I check the partition tables? Remember, I have nothing in
>>> /usr
>>>
>>>TTFN
>>>
>>>Paul
>>
>> This sounds as if you had it setup with labels, but are not using
>> an initrd now, which is required to run labels as opposed to
>> direct pointers such as /dev/hda7.  If you know which partition
>> was the one that has the /usr on it, and you can do that with
>> experimental mounts to /mnt/someplace, (after a mkdir
>> /mnt/someplace) then mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/someplace, then
>> do an ls on it and see if thats /usr, if not, umount it, and try
>> /dev/hda2 etc until you find  the /usr partition.  When you find
>> it, get rid of that LABEL= crap in  your fstab and use that
>> instead.  When its fixed, reboot.
>
>No, there seems to be something that happened with yesterdays
> rawhide update. I just rebooted and got the message that my home
> dir did not exist.  I went to a virtual term and looked to see what
> ws up.  This is what I got:
>
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda1              97M   18M   75M  20% /boot
>none                  244M  184K  244M   1% /dev/shm
>/dev/hda5              97M   18M   75M  20% /home
>
>Well that is weird.
>
>This is my fstab:
># 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 LABEL=/home    
>         /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/hdc                /media/cdrecorder      
> auto
>pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,ma
>naged 0 0
>/dev/scd0               /media/cdrecorder1      auto
>pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,ma
>naged 0 0
>
>A ls of /home showed that it was empty.  So I mounted it. and it was
> there.
>
>But I did not see anything in /boot.  /boot is hda1, but / is hda2. 
> The size for /boot is correct, but when I went to /boot it was
> empty.  Looking at / showed that it was mounted as /boot.  I
> mounted /boot ok, and the files are there, but the latest df shows:
>
>
>[bpm]$ df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda1              97M   18M   75M  20% /boot
>none                  244M  184K  244M   1% /dev/shm
>/dev/hda5              26G  6.2G   19G  26% /home
>/dev/hda1              97M   18M   75M  20% /boot
>[bpm]$ cd /
>[bpm]$ df -h .
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>-                     9.7G  5.2G  4.0G  57% /
>
>
>So I'd say something is rotten.

It would appear so, and I don't have any other ideas.

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