unmeant redundant partitions
Knops, Manfred
Manfred.KNOPS at 3ds.com
Wed Dec 10 09:53:50 UTC 2008
Hello,
it's the first time for me to use a mailing group. So I hope it's the
right place.
At the moment I installed opensuse 11.0 on a machine with two harddiscs
and one raid system with adaptec raid controller.
I have installed linux on one harddisc before I build the raid
combination. After that I rebooted the machine.
At this moment the device id's changed. Now I have following harddisc's:
fileserver:~ # fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util
fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 8996.8 GB, 8996872257536 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1093807 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2e2e2e2e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1045 8393931 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 * 1046 30401 235802070 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 1046 2351 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 2352 3004 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 3005 30401 220066371 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2e2e2e2e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 1045 8393931 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc2 * 1046 30401 235802070 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 1046 2351 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc6 2352 3004 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 3005 30401 220066371 83 Linux
Disk /dev/dm-0: 161.0 GB, 161037403136 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19578 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Most time I use partition labels to mount the partitions. I can't
remember why. But the partitions of sdb and sdc have the same labels:
fileserver:~ # !for
for device in sdb5 sdc5 sdb6 sdc6 sdb7 sdc7; do tune2fs -l
/dev/${device} | grep "Filesystem volume name"; done
Filesystem volume name: rootOnSdb
Filesystem volume name: rootOnSdb
Filesystem volume name: tmpOnSdb
Filesystem volume name: tmpOnSdb
Filesystem volume name: varOnSdb
Filesystem volume name: varOnSdb
sdb is the default disc for linux. sdc should be a spare part. So this
is the mount table:
fileserver:~ # mount
/dev/sdb5 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sdb6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sdb7 on /var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda1 on /fileserverShare type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda2 on /backup type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
proc on /var/lib/ntp/proc type proc (ro)
/dev/mapper/cr_sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
Now I will show you what I have found.
1. I touched a file on /root. / is the mountpoint of /dev/sdb5. So the
file must be storage on /dev/sdb5.
fileserver:~ # date
Mi 10. Dez 10:34:03 CET 2008
fileserver:~ # echo `date` >> /root/foo.bar
fileserver:~ # ls -l /root/foo.bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 2008-12-10 10:34 /root/foo.bar
fileserver:~ # cat /root/foo.bar
Mi 10. Dez 10:34:19 CET 2008
fileserver:~ #
2. I mount /dev/sdc5 to /local/sdc/
fileserver:~ # mount -v /local/sdc/
/dev/sdc5 on /local/sdc type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
3. I list the entry of /local/sdc/root/
fileserver:~ # ls -l /local/sdc/root/
total 92
-rw------- 1 root root 13431 2008-12-10 10:03 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-09 13:00 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1332 2005-11-23 17:06 .exrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 2008-12-10 10:34 foo.bar
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:47 .gnupg
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-12-05 10:56 inst-sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:20 .kbd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-08 10:09 ldap_datenbank_sicherung
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 2008-12-08 16:32 .ldaprc
-r-------- 1 root root 102 2008-12-09 11:17 Liesmich.txt
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:33 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20859 2008-12-05 11:34 .suse_register.log
-rw------- 1 root root 9526 2008-12-10 09:44 .viminfo
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-12-09 13:31 .Xauthority
fileserver:~ # cat /local/sdc/root/foo.bar
Mi 10. Dez 10:34:19 CET 2008
At this moment I was confused about the existing file foo.bar under
/local/sdc/.
Because I can't explain why it exists. First I think there was an error
on my side.
So I delete /local/sdc/root/foo.bar.
fileserver:~ # rm -vf /local/sdc/root/foo.bar
removed `/local/sdc/root/foo.bar'
fileserver:~ #
fileserver:~ # ls -l /local/sdc/root
total 88
-rw------- 1 root root 13431 2008-12-10 10:03 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-09 13:00 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1332 2005-11-23 17:06 .exrc
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:47 .gnupg
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-12-05 10:56 inst-sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:20 .kbd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-08 10:09 ldap_datenbank_sicherung
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 2008-12-08 16:32 .ldaprc
-r-------- 1 root root 102 2008-12-09 11:17 Liesmich.txt
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:33 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20859 2008-12-05 11:34 .suse_register.log
-rw------- 1 root root 9526 2008-12-10 09:44 .viminfo
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-12-09 13:31 .Xauthority
The file doesn't exist anymore on /local/sdc/root/.
Now I check /root.
fileserver:~ # ls -l /root/
total 88
-rw------- 1 root root 13431 2008-12-10 10:03 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-09 13:00 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1332 2005-11-23 17:06 .exrc
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:47 .gnupg
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-12-05 10:56 inst-sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:20 .kbd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-08 10:09 ldap_datenbank_sicherung
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 2008-12-08 16:32 .ldaprc
-r-------- 1 root root 102 2008-12-09 11:17 Liesmich.txt
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 11:33 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20859 2008-12-05 11:34 .suse_register.log
-rw------- 1 root root 9526 2008-12-10 09:44 .viminfo
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-12-09 13:31 .Xauthority
The file foo.bar doesn't exist anymore here. But why?
Can someone explain me what happens on this machine?
Regards
Manfred
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