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after a quick glance at this, did you partition and format the drive?<BR>
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:14, Asheville Joe wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>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@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/removeable
[root@localhost mnt]# cd removeable
[root@localhost removeable]# ls
[root@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@localhost removeable]# cd ..
[root@localhost mnt]# umount /dev/hdb1
[root@localhost mnt]#</I></FONT></PRE>
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