Installing a new hard disk

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Thu Aug 14 14:51:44 EDT 2003 

post the result of dmesg with the new drive in
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 14:20, Asheville Joe wrote:

> 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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Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
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