Installing a new hard disk

[Asheville Joe]

I was hoping it was something simple like that! I'll try that. Then 
what? mkfs and it's cousins have a bunch of options I don't really 
understand. Or will harddrake do it for me?

Joe

Robert Meyer wrote:

>It's bombing out 'cuz you're telling it to fsck the thing in your fstab.
>
>Change the fstab line to read:
>/dev/hdb1 /mnt/removeable ext3 user,noauto,rw,suid,exec 0 0
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi.  Linux 101 question:
>>
>>I bought a new hard drive (for use with my new - not purchased yet - 
>>computer).
>>
>>I have two hard drives in my current computer, the main one (dual boot 
>>Linux and WIN98), and one in a removable bay.
>>
>>I have the removable one (hdb1) set as noauto in fstab.
>>
>>So, I shut down my computer, pulled the old removable drive out and put 
>>the new one in thinking it would boot up fine and let me figure out how 
>>to format the new drive to ext3.
>>
>>Oh well!  Mandrake (9.1 RC2) sees the new drive, can't read it and gets 
>>upset.  It will only boot into maintenance mode and I don't know enough 
>>to proceed.  That wasn't too bad, but I thought that having it set to 
>>noauto would have gotten me around this.
>>
>>So, I shutdown and removed the new drive then rebooted.  It still won't 
>>let me past maintenance mode because it's missing it's beloved drive.
>>
>>Questions:
>> 1) How do I set up my computer so that it is happy whether or not hdb1 
>>is there?
>>
>> 2) How do I put the new drive in and format it (mkfs.ext3?)?  It's a 
>>120GB IDE drive that I will probably use for media files and image 
>>backups of the main drive on my new system when I get it.  (It will be 
>>installed in the new computer - so Bob, don't yell at me for putting 
>>more stuff in this old clunker. ;))
>>
>>3) If I want to rename my drives - e.g. from dos_hda1 to cdrive_hda1, 
>>etc., do I have to do anything other than change the entries in 
>>/etc/fstab?  Is there anything to watch out for?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>My /etc/fstab:
>>
>>/dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>>/dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
>>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
>>/dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
>>none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
>>dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codep
>>age=850,umask=0 0 0
>>/dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_hda1 vfat 
>>iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,defaults 0
>> 0
>>/dev/hda5 /mnt/dos_hda5 vfat 
>>iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,defaults 0
>> 0
>>none /mnt/floppy supermount 
>>dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,cod
>>epage=850,umask=0 0 0
>>/dev/hdb1 /mnt/removeable ext3 user,noauto,rw,suid,exec 1 2
>>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>>/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
>>
>>I shut down, put my old drive back in and it works as advertized.
>>
>>[root at localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/removeable
>>[root at localhost mnt]# cd removeable
>>[root at localhost removeable]# ls
>>[root at localhost removeable]# df
>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>/dev/hda7             5.9G  2.4G  3.2G  43% /
>>/dev/hda6              16M  2.4M   13M  17% /boot
>>/dev/hda9              15G  328M   15G   3% /home
>>/dev/hda1             3.5G  2.3G  1.2G  66% /mnt/dos_hda1
>>/dev/hda5             3.4G  876M  2.5G  26% /mnt/dos_hda5
>>/dev/hdb1             4.0G   33M  3.7G   1% /mnt/removeable
>>
>>[root at localhost removeable]# cd ..
>>[root at localhost mnt]# umount /dev/hdb1
>>[root at localhost mnt]#
>>
>>    
>>
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