[NMLUG] Linux upgrade puzzler

[Ed at Heron-ent.com (Ed Heron)]

From: "lee" <lee at dosmanosjewelry.com>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:22 PM


> Results of cat /proc/partitions /proc/mounts
>
> major minor  #blocks  name
>
>   3     0   39070080 hda
>   3     1    6136798 hda1
>   3     2          1 hda2
>   3     5     506016 hda5
>   3     6   32427171 hda6
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
> none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
> udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
> capifs /dev/capi capifs rw 0 0
> binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0

  For the peanut gallery and to understand the issue, myself.

  What are hda1, hda5 and hda6 used for.  Obviously, one of them is root 
(hda1?).  Is hda5 swap?  that leaves hda6 for home?  I don't see it mounted. 
What is in /etc/fstab?