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where is / partition?

monu_1 — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:59:23 GMT

Hi All,

How can we know, where is root partition at grub prompt?

by mistaken changed in fstab file and now could not finding /.

Please advice.

Thx,
MKS

Re: where is / partition?

Stuart Browne — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:51:36 GMT

Generally on a recent system, the file systems will be mounted by label, i.e.

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1

If you boot from a rescue CD of some kind, you should be able to find it fairly easily, and fix the fstab.

Re: where is / partition?

Srimalik — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:56:12 GMT

boot from a rescue CD
do fdisk -l ( this will list all the partiotions)

mount each of the linux partitions at some location by the contents of the mountpoint you can tell whether it is root partion or not.

Re: where is / partition?

skt_skt — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:22:47 GMT

is the server still up?

Compare to the o/p of mount -l . That gives a mapping between the device/partition to the mount point.

from mount -l
/dev/sda9 on / type ext3 (rw) [/]

in fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1