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From: dunlap@bombadl.SGI.COM (D. Christopher Dunlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: the /debug partition
Summary: a small correction...
Message-ID: <18025@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 88 16:52:58 GMT
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Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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In article <18021@sgi.SGI.COM>, archer@elysium.SGI.COM (Archer Sully) writes:
> 
> If /debug won't remount, check your /etc/fstab.  it should have this 
> line in it:
> 
> /debug /debug dbg rw 0 0
> 
> If it doesn't, put it back.  If it does, make sure that the /debug
> mount point is still there.  If both conditions are true, then I
> have no idea what you've done to your system.  Try re-installing
> 3.0, or waiting for the maintenance release to get there.
> 
> There will be a man page for /debug in the next general software release.
> 
> > Thanks, 
> > 	Bernie Kirby.
> 
> 
> You're Welcome,
> 	Archer Sully
> 
> 

Actually, the thing that mounts "/debug" is the script 
"/etc/rc2.d/S01MOUNTFSYS". This is the script that actually does the
mounting of the filesystems, and if you look in there, you will see
that it explicitly mounts "/debug".




Chris Dunlap
Silicon Graphics

	"I Knew something Archer didn't know.... YA YAAA YA YA.."



P.S.

You should NEVER touch anything in those directories.