[CentOS] ext4?

Mon Aug 9 11:08:29 UTC 2010
James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com>

Hi Keith, thanks for your detailed reply. I haven't tried this yet..

What I have done is follow this tutorial to build the latest kernel
(http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel) which in the end game me
an rpm of it for installation however when it came to install the rpm
the follow was displayed;

package kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 is already installed
file /boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.hmac from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/System.map-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/config-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/symvers-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.gz from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64


However none of these files exist in /boot?

[nf5002 at eros ~]$ ls -la /boot
total 5727
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    1024 Aug  9 12:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root    4096 Aug  9 11:46 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   62395 Jun 11  2008 config-2.6.18-92.el5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    1024 Aug  9 11:34 grub
-rw-------  1 root root 2544058 Oct 27  2008 initrd-2.6.18-92.el5.img
drwx------  2 root root   12288 Oct 27  2008 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   80032 Nov 22  2007 message
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   92749 Jun 11  2008 symvers-2.6.18-92.el5.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1162656 Jun 11  2008 System.map-2.6.18-92.el5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1859484 Jun 11  2008 vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5

This must some how relate to the fact the boot is on a different
device, so where does CentOS think /boot is? I mean, the system is
booting, has been for a few years so its working? If I unmount /boot I
can't ls /boot, its empty?

[nf5002 at eros ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              28G  8.3G   18G  33% /
/dev/sdb1             119M   12M  103M  10% /boot

/dev/sda2 is a 3.3TB ext4 partition, so /dev/sda uses GPT hence /boot
being on a seperate device.

-- 
Regards,
James.

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