[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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