Installing a new hard disk
Asheville Joe
josephj at main.nc.us
Thu Aug 14 14:20:58 EDT 2003
OK. What else is new? I don't know how to run fdisk! It seemed simple
enough, but below is my attempt.
[root at localhost bigbird]# man fdisk
[root at localhost bigbird]# fdisk /dev/hdb1
Unable to open /dev/hdb1
[root at localhost bigbird]# fdisk /dev/hdb
Unable to open /dev/hdb
[root at localhost bigbird]# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/removable
mount: mount point /mnt/removable does not exist
[root at localhost bigbird]# ls /mnt
cdrom/ dos_hda1/ dos_hda5/ floppy/ removeable/ win_c2/ win_d2/ win_e/
[root at localhost bigbird]# mount /dev/hdb1 removable
mount: mount point removable does not exist
[root at localhost bigbird]# man fdisk
[root at localhost bigbird]# ls /dev/hd*
/dev/hda@ /dev/hda1@ /dev/hda2@ /dev/hda5@ /dev/hda6@ /dev/hda7@
/dev/hda8@ /dev/hda9@ /dev/hdc@
[root at localhost bigbird]#
The other drive (4GB IDE) works fine when installed and is /dev/hdb1
(/mnt/removeable). BTW, What are all these at signs for and what's
/dev/hdc? Does it mean I got the hard drive jumper set wrong?
Thanks,
Joe
This is what cfdisk displays (with some whitespace deleted).
cfdisk 2.11x
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 30735581184 bytes, 30.7 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 3736
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] ize (MB)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
hda1 Boot Primary Win95 FAT32 3668.48
hda5 Logical Win95 FAT32 3553.33
hda6 Logical Linux ext2 16.46
hda7 Logical Linux ext3 6407.50
hda8 Logical Linux swap 830.76
hda9 Logical Linux ext3 16253.16
Robert Meyer wrote:
>Well, changing the line in fstab only makes it stop trying to fsck on the way
>up. All other file system things that you want to do, you still have to do.
>
>If you have a new drive and want to use it with linux, then you have to fdisk
>it and do either 'mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1' or 'mke2fs /dev/hdb1' (journalled or
>not) and then mount the drive. I suspect that you can do that from the
>mandrake control center. This assumes you're going to make all one partition.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>
>
>>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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