Mounting Partitions???

[clinger]

I've created my partitions:

hda1 -> /boot
hda2 -> swap
hda3 -> /
hda5 -> /home
hda6 -> /var
hda7 -> /usr
hda8 -> /tmp

Now I'm ready to mount them and I'm confused. Do I [/b]do the following:

mkdir home
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /home

mkdir var
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /var

...

OR is this what I'm suppose to do:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo/home

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo/var

...

Are all the mount points suppose to go in /mnt/gentoo directory?

[ctt]

[jdgill0]

First you would mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo, then you would mkdir for each of the remaining directories and then mount them as well. Your "/" directory is always the base of the filesystem, everything else is mounted underneath it.

Since you are prepping to install gentoo, you are actually mounting your soon to be "/" at /mnt/gentoo. So in effect /mnt/gentoo will become "/" when you get to the chroot step within the install docs.. Once chrooted, you will no longer see /mnt/gentoo, only "/" and everything mounted within it.

Now, once you are done installing Gentoo and booting your computer on its own, /dev/hda3 will be mounted as "/" NOT /mnt/gentoo. Be sure to pay close attention to the fstab configuration later in the install.
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[caslca]

gees, those are some partitions you've made

Since you're talking about /mnt/gentoo, I assume you're in the installing stages (i.e. you booted from CD), and you have NOT untarred the stage yet.

1. mount hda3 on /mnt/gentoo
2. make all of the desired folders under /mnt/gentoo
3. mount all of your partitions to corresponding folders
4. cp your stage tarball to /mnt/gentoo and "cd /mnt/gentoo"
5. untar the tarball


You can issue "swapon hda2" at any time, since swap does not have a mount point.

If you have extracted your tarball in hda3 (your root partition), then you need to boot with a live CD, mount hda3 on /mnt/gentoo, mv all directories you want on separate partitions to say "{dirname}old", then you create the folders for the partitions, mount the partitions and cp all files/folders to the new place.

Make sure after all that you edit your fstab properly, or you'll be screwed

e.g. say you want to do this for /usr and you have already untared a stage under hda3 ("/")
1. boot from live cd
2. mount -t filesystem /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
3. cd /mnt/gentoo
4. mv usr usrold
5. mkdir usr
6. mount -t filesystem /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo/usr
7. mv usrold/* usr/

I'd also check for any hidden files (starting with a dot) in usrold that were not picked by 7

[clinger]

Thanks! Now I can move forward with my install.