[afnog] Need Help - grep: /proc/cmdline: no such file ordirectory

[Hannigan, Martin]

Brian, yes, 100% concur on /proc. A nuance I've forgotten about. Thanks!


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler at pobox.com]
Sent:	Tue Aug 16 15:19:02 2005
To:	Ayitey Bulley
Cc:	afnog at afnog.org
Subject:	Re: [afnog] Need Help - grep: /proc/cmdline: no such file ordirectory

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:05:36PM +0000, Ayitey Bulley wrote:
> Hi Emmanuel,
> 
> Try reinstalling the system but preserve the data on the partitions you 
> created with the initial install, this should repair the corrupted /proc 
> directory and leave your data on the other partitions intact.

/proc is not a real filesystem, it's generated by the kernel containing
information about currently active processes, files, devices etc.

So I think M<'s advice is good: first thing is to boot from a recovery CD,
look at /etc/fstab or equivalent on the target system, and see if it's
broken.

> > Theoretically, you could just create the /proc directory
> > manually. I think it's a negative performance impact though
> > and not recommended.

/proc isn't a real directory, so there's no performance issue. Only an empty
/proc filesystem needs to exist in the root filesystem; you then mount the
virtual 'proc' filesystem on top of that.

Regards,

Brian.

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