On Saturday 12 June 2010, Pallav Jain wrote: >today i am amazed to see that my /boot folder is empty and i am unable to >decide and generate the reason(s) for it, why suddenly is it happening, i > my self not able to understand though i have installed fedora core 11 and > updated all the packages via GUI, irrespective of the fact that whether > the package could be of any utility or not for my usage. > >till yesterday everything was there okay and today /boot contents are >missing only the empty directory /boot is there?? > >The changes i did today: > >1. Disabled the root login by uncommenting the second lines of the files: > >/etc/pam.d/gdm >/etc/pam.d/gdm-password > >2. Tried to improve the bandwidth, as per: > >http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Fedora11#Improving_your_bandwi >dth > >/etc/sysctl.conf edited, swappiness edited, noatime and nodiratime >added in /etc/fstab > >3. installed preload and implemented the improvements via tmpfs. > >I am amazed to see this THOUGH I AM ABLE TO LOGIN. > >The output of the file /etc/fstab is: > >******************************** > ># ># /etc/fstab ># Created by anaconda on Mon Jun 7 06:08:04 2010 ># ># Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' ># See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more > info # >UUID=a1198e23-8da4-47c4-90f1-d516fef0b796 /boot ext3 >defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 2c And what precisely does this '1 2c' do? >/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 >defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 1 >/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap >defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 >tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs >defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 >devpts /dev/pts devpts >gid=5,mode=620 0 0 >#devpts options modified by setup update to fix #515521 ugly way >sysfs /sys sysfs >defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 >proc /proc proc >defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 >tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 >tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 > >********************************** > >and the command 'df' yields: > >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root > 95846180 3353804 91519788 4% / >tmpfs 1025444 4200 1021244 1% /dev/shm >tmpfs 1025444 18120 1007324 2% /tmp >tmpfs 1025444 0 1025444 0% /var/tmp > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Lots of girls can be had for a song. Unfortunately, it often turns out to be the wedding march. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines