From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harry Kalogirou Subject: Re: "mount" bug Date: 25 Oct 2002 16:30:06 +0300 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1035545532.5491.4.camel@cool> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: jb1@btstream.com Cc: Linux-8086 > /dev/fd1 seems to mount, but be inaccessible. > > After booting ELKS 0.1.1 from a 3-1/2" diskette in /dev/fd0, "mkdir /mnt", > "ls -l /" shows 2 hard links and a 32-byte size for mnt. > > "mount /dev/fd1 /mnt", when /dev/fd1 contains a 5-1/4" ELKS diskette, > shows: > fd: probing disc in /dev/fd1 > fd: /dev/fd1 probably has 15 sectors and 80 cylinders > MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended. > > "ls -l /" now shows 10 hard links and a 160-byte size for mnt. > > "ls /mnt" now shows: > /mnt: > /mnt/in/sh > : No such file or directory > > After this point, "meminfo" shows *more* free and the system rapidly > deteriorates ("Cannot fork", a blank commandline prompt, a garbage > commandline prompt, etc.) > > Changing /mnt's permissions, owner and group don't help. Interchanging the > 3-1/2" and 5-1/4" drives didn't help, although there were more error > messages from mount. Using 5-1/4" drives for both /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1 > (with an ELKS 0.1.0 diskette in /dev/fd1) didn't help. > I tried it on my machine, but with 2 3-1/2 drives and it works fine. Harry