Mount added drive -

[Bob Goodwin]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> This is an F-10 updated box to which I've added a second drive which is
>> not mounting automatically at boot.  I have to mount it after I log in. 
>> Obviously I've messed up something in configuration but I haven't been
>> able to find it.
>>
>> I am not sure what ftab should look like but presently it is:.
>>
>>    [root at box9 bobg]# cat /etc/fstab
>>
>>    #
>>    # /etc/fstab
>>    # Created by anaconda on Tue Feb 24 04:01:45 2009
>>    #
>>    # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
>>    # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for
>>    more info
>>    #
>>    /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /                       ext3     
>> defaults        1 1
>>    UUID=3c6742c9-0f68-4390-b323-b962596822d6 /boot                    
>> ext3    defaults        1 2
>>    tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs    
>> defaults        0 0
>>    devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts   
>> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>>    sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs    
>> defaults        0 0
>>    proc                    /proc                   proc     
>> defaults        0 0
>>    /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 swap                    swap     
>> defaults        0 0
>>
>>    /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol02 UUID=tvOhFL-1sDH-fk5y-zv00-PR6c-cA2F-xyOTAP
>>        ext3    defaults    1 2
>>
>>     
> Reading this, you are giving
> UUID=tvOhFL-1sDH-fk5y-zv00-PR6c-cA2F-xyOTAP as the mount point. I
> don't think this is what you are after.
>   
>> I can mount it:
>>
>>    [root at box9 bobg]# mount /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol02
>>    [root at box9 bobg]# df
>>    Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>    /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00
>>                           5289592   3210420   2025496  62% /
>>    /dev/sda2               194449     20859    163550  12% /boot
>>    tmpfs                  1292316        76   1292240   1% /dev/shm
>>    /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol02
>>                          76923936    222308  72794044   1%
>>    /home/bobg/UUID=tvOhFL-1sDH-fk5y-zv00-PR6c-cA2F-xyOTAP
>>
>> And df shows:
>>
>>    [root at box9 bobg]# df
>>    Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>    /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00
>>                           5289592   3210420   2025496  62% /
>>    /dev/sda2               194449     20859    163550  12% /boot
>>    tmpfs                  1292316        76   1292240   1% /dev/shm
>>    /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol02
>>                          76923936    222308  72794044   1%
>>    /home/bobg/UUID=tvOhFL-1sDH-fk5y-zv00-PR6c-cA2F-xyOTAP
>>
>> And lvscan:
>>
>>    [root at box9 bobg]# lvscan
>>      ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00' [5.12 GB] inherit
>>      ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01' [4.41 GB] inherit
>>      ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol02' [74.53 GB] inherit
>>
>> I would like the second drive to be an extension of the first.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong?
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>     
> I am not sure what you are after, but if you want the second drive
> to VolGroup01-LogVol00, you do not create another logical volume -
> add it to Vol00. You will probably want to use the Logical Volume
> Management to do it. Under Gnome, it is System --> Administration
> --> Logical Volume Management.
>
> Mikkel
>   
Now I'm in deeper trouble!

I thought I would simply use fdisk to rewrite the partition on /dev/sdb
which it happily did.  But now when I do mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1  it 
protests
that "/dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a 
filesystem here!"

umount /dev/sdb1 says it's not mounted?

Now I'm stuck.  The simplest thing would be to reinstall the system but
bandwidth for updates is killing me.  Wildblue is a satellite service and
I'm limited to 17 Gigs/30 days.  I hate to keep burning up my bw.

How can I access /dev/sdb1.  I have no rescue disk, installed from the 
live cd.

Bob