[RichardJH]

I have a problem where I get errors when I use the info screen in TW 2.0.
I have been advised about the issue as below

Quote:
RichardJH: your df isn't working... when you can get that command working from bash, TWP should stop throwing that error (check your mtab... could be gone or corrupted)

Originally posted by BTUx9

I still have my original problem that BTUx9 says is a mtab problem.
I have compared both my Tivos files and noticed that mtab resides in /var/hack and that in the one that works there is a symlink from /etc/mtab. I reckon that what is missing from the one that is giving errors but don't know how to fix it. Can anyone help.

What I don't know is how I can create the symlink from /etc the same as I have on my 100% working Tivo

 

[ColinYounger]

From memory: a symlink can be created between files with the command 'ln -s': ln -s <OriginalFile> <NewFile>

For example,

ln -s /etc/mtab/FileA /var/hack/FileA

Directories need the -d:

ln -d -s /etc/mtab /var/hack/mtab

 

[RichardJH]

TiVo: {/etc} % ls -l
total 79
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 266 Sep 25 2001 boot.expect
-rw-rw-rw- 1 0 0 138 Feb 14 2002 build-version
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 221 Sep 25 2001 chat-script
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 108 Oct 5 2002 fstab
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 42 Sep 25 2001 hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1591 Sep 25 2001 inittab
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 5725 Sep 25 2001 install-tivo1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 9 Oct 5 2002 mtab -> /var/mtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1702 Sep 25 2001 nsswitch.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 88 Sep 25 2001 ppp-options
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1567 Sep 25 2001 protocols
-rw-rw-r-- 1 0 0 32768 Sep 5 2006 psdevtab
drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 1024 Oct 4 22:42 rc.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 74 Sep 25 2001 resolv.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 11349 Sep 25 2001 services
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1726 Sep 25 2001 syslog.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4469 Sep 25 2001 tclient.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 4840 Nov 27 2001 tclientUK.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 775 Sep 25 2001 termcap
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Oct 5 2002 tivoconfig
TiVo: {/etc} %

These are the files on my Tivo2 and I have highlighted in bold the file that seems to be missing on my Tivo1.

How do I write or copy the symlink file onto Tivo1

 

[ColinYounger]

/var/mtab is a file on my TiVo, so:

Log into Tivo1.

mount -o remount,rw
cd /etc
ln -s /var/mtab
mount -o remount,ro

Then you can check with:

ls -l /etc

 

[ColinYounger]

also to test, type

df

I get:

Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda7             126911   31193    89165     26%   /
/dev/hda9             126911   41331    79027     34%   /var

 

[ColinYounger]

I'm going offline now - others feel free to jump in!

 

[RichardJH]

Well done Colin that has fixed the problem :up: :up: :up: :up: :up: :up: :up:

It was something that was niggling me for a long time