Installing a new hard disk

[Robert Meyer]

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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