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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

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