[mythtv-users] Mounting /video partition after reinstall

Chris Clarke chrisjohn.clarke at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 00:05:43 UTC 2004


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:53:00 -0500, Jason Giddens
<jgiddens.listbox at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ----------------NEWBIE ALERT------------------
> 
> I was having trouble with my FC1 system, so I deleted the /, /boot,
> and swap partitions, leaving my /video partition.  I installed FC3 and
> have it up and running.  However when I try to mount the /video
> partition it fails.
> 
> Here is what I did:
> 
> [root at mythtv etc]# /sbin/fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb2              14        1288    10241437+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb3            1289        1419     1052257+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hdb4            1420       24321   183960315   83  Linux
> [root at mythtv etc]# mount -t xfs /dev/hdb4 /video
> mount: mount point /video does not exist
> 
> I know that /dev/hdb4 is the /video partition from the previous
> install.  This is where all my recordings, etc are.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Jason Giddens
> jgiddens.listbox at gmail dot com
> 
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> 
It sounds like you haven't created the directory /video,
you should also update /etc/fstab

Chris


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