Re: Problem with mount /

From: Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Date: Mon May 01 2000 - 10:55:21 EST


On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 06:47:33AM +0200, Rodolfo García wrote:

> run lilo ... and reboot, look this:
>
> [root@hell /]# mount
> /dev/hdc1 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> ...
> [root@hell /]#
> [root@hell /]# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/floppy/
> mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /mnt/floppy/ busy

Your root filesystem is mounted read-only. So mount cannot update
/etc/mtab. So the command "mount" will not tell you what is mounted,
but what was mounted last time mount could write it.

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