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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] USB mass storage with SW81. kernel
  • Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:48:10 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

DSL let me insmod. So I did:
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
And it crashed to the point where it would not reboot.
<snip>

But did I do anything obviously wrong above?

I think the question might be otherwise phrased like this: what will happen on a Linux system if I try to mount a device file under a mount point that already has other subdirectories under it? I never tried that myself, but I'd have to guess that nothing good at all could come of it. A serious system crash wouldn't surprise me. So, I'll just bet /mnt had some other subdirectories under it (like, if the system you booted it with had a hard drive with one or more partitions you would have had at least /mnt/hda1): I've used DSL quite a bit and it typically creates mount points under /mnt for anything it finds on the system during boot that looks like it might contain a file system. There was probably a /mnt/fd0 there and a /mnt/hdb for the CD drive you booted from. I hope it didn't corrupt your camera's flash disk somehow.

James




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