Multiple mountpoints during setup, need help reorganizing

emzatos · 2018-12-16 00:43:06

Hello,

I recently installed Arch on my Dell XPS 13 (9360). I am dualbooting Windows and used syslinux for the boot loader. Unfortunately, at some point I was apparently confused with how the mounting worked, and ended up with two identical mounting points, one at / and one at /boot. I would ideally like to have a single mount point at /, since I have been running into issues updating the kernel in this current scheme. I feel like it is as simple as unmounting one of the directories, but I just want to make sure before I lose any data. Thank you in advance. I've included the ls for /, /boot, and /boot/boot as well as my /etc/fstab file.

➜ / ls
bin home lib64 proc srv var
boot initramfs-linux-fallback.img lost+found root sys vmlinuz-linux
dev initramfs-linux.img mnt run tmp
etc lib opt sbin usr

➜ /boot ls
bin home lib64 proc srv var
boot initramfs-linux-fallback.img lost+found root sys vmlinuz-linux
dev initramfs-linux.img mnt run tmp
etc lib

➜ /boot/boot ls
initramfs-linux-fallback.img syslinux
initramfs-linux.img vmlinuz-linux

➜ ~ cat /etc/fstab
# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/nvme0n1p7
UUID=ea90828d-f832-4f5b-b475-96d3f6b08471 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1

# /dev/nvme0n1p7
UUID=ea90828d-f832-4f5b-b475-96d3f6b08471 /boot ext4 rw,relatime 0 2

# /dev/nvme0n1p7
#UUID=ea90828d-f832-4f5b-b475-96d3f6b08471 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1

MissLunaPants · 2018-12-16 01:54:14

well... that looks broken af. not sure how u can do it unless you move /boot to / and /boot/boot to /boot... might be broken though. nope upon further looking id suggest starting over

loqs · 2018-12-16 02:06:51

If you comment out the entry for /boot in the fstab and reboot that should remove the directory recursion.
Then you can compare the contents of / and the contents of /boot.
Please use code tags for commands and their outputs.

MissLunaPants · 2018-12-16 02:09:04

would it not be wiser to just wipe clean n start over? i just feel like that can cause further issues tbh

loqs · 2018-12-16 02:20:14

If only initramfs-linux-fallback.img, initramfs-linux.img and vmlinuz-linux have been duplicated from a kernel upgrade
then removing those three files and reinstalling the linux package to ensure the versions in /boot are the recent versions seems simpler to me.

MissLunaPants · 2018-12-16 03:10:53

yea but looks like home and others are on boot...
and on root

loqs · 2018-12-16 03:31:56

It is the nesting

# dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile.img bs=1M count=1
# mkdir mntpnt
# cd mntpnt/
# mkdir a b c boot
# cd ..
# ls mntpnt
a  b  boot  c  lost+found
# ls mntpnt/boot
# mount -o loop tempfile.img mntpnt/boot
# ls mntpnt/boot
a  b  boot  c  lost+found
# ls mntpnt/boot/boot

Last edited by loqs (2018-12-16 03:42:55)

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#1 2018-12-16 00:43:06

Multiple mountpoints during setup, need help reorganizing

#2 2018-12-16 01:54:14

Re: Multiple mountpoints during setup, need help reorganizing

#3 2018-12-16 02:06:51

Re: Multiple mountpoints during setup, need help reorganizing

#4 2018-12-16 02:09:04

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Re: Multiple mountpoints during setup, need help reorganizing

#6 2018-12-16 03:10:53

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Re: Multiple mountpoints during setup, need help reorganizing

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