Hard disk issues - FSTAB info

Wed Feb 25 01:58:40 UTC 2004

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             udf,iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 
0

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>From: Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net>
>Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Hard disk issues
>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:41:46 -0600
>
>
>
>Gabriel Birrane wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>>You already have the second drive (sdb1) mounted.  Per the mount command 
>>>output it is mounted at / .
>>>The df command output confirms this.
>>>
>>>NOTE: you have about 230+ gb of unused/unpartitioned space on /dev/sda
>>>
>>>To add the other drive (after defining the partition and formatting it) 
>>>simply select the point on the filesystem where you want it mounted and 
>>>mount it there.  It then becomes part of the usable space.
>>
>>
>>How do I do this (in simple terms)?
>>I would like to mount it so that I have the remaining 230Gb availalbe to 
>>"/"
>
>can you send a copy of /etc/fstab ???
>the info you sent earler identifies /dev/sda2 as swap, and about 1.7gb in 
>size.
>
>Now the following needs to be done.
># fdisk /dev/sda
>and create a new partition.
># mke2fs -j /dev/sdaX
>Where X is the new partition number. The -j makes it an ext3 partition but 
>use the options appropriate for you.
>Indications are that you only have /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 defined, so this 
>might be /dev/sda3 if you define it as a primary partition or /dev/sda5 if 
>you define it as an extended partition.
>
>Then you will need to define a mount point for this new partition.
>You indicate you want it to be at /, but that is impossible.  You already 
>have /dev/sdb1 mounted at /.
>You may mount it at any desired subdirectory/mount point.  I use /var /usr 
>/tmp /home /opt as mount points for appropriately sized partitons. Once the 
>decision is made of where to nount it, then you can use the mount command 
>to actually perform the mount and modify the /etc/fstab file to mount it at 
>boot time.
>
>Use the man pages for mount and fstab to provide more info.
>Also be aware that you should never mount a filesystem over a directory 
>that already has content.  Doing so will make the existing content 
>inaccessible.
>
>>>>>3. Does the output of SMARTD look ok or does it suggest a problem with 
>>>>>one of the drives?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Read the output.  There is a problem noted.
>>>>
>>>>May be bios or someting else.
>>>
>>
>>Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Device: /dev/hda, No such device 
>>or address, open() failed
>>Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered 
>>data mode.
>>Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Unable to register ATA device 
>>/dev/hda at line 30 of file /etc/smartd.conf
>>Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
>>Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Unable to register device /dev/hda 
>>(no Directive -d removable). Exiting.
>>
>>
>>I don't know where to start troubleshooting these errors. Any help
>>would be appreciated.
>
>First check that bios has the drive smart capability enabled.
>
>Check dmesg and /var/log/messages to see what it tells you about the drive 
>and smart capabilities.
>
>The message show smartd is trying to use /dev/hda, but you do not have hda. 
>  You have sda & sdb instead.
>
>
>
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