Partition mounting under RHEL4

[Alfred Hovdestad]

What does 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' return?  How about for sdb and sdc?  Did 
you create partitions (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1)?

If you did create partitions, what does 'e2label /dev/sda1' return?  If 
not, how about 'e2label /dev/sda'?

    Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
    University of Saskatchewan



Bruce W. Martin wrote:
> I am having a problem with a new install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
> RHEL4 is required in this particular work instance.
> This is a SuperMicro 1U server with the 2010S ZCR card option for the  
> two main SCSI drives. I have a SCSI RAID container on one of the SCSI  
> chanels and have a Fibre Channel Raid enclosure (EonStore) and an LSI  
> FC919X Fibre Channel Card.
> 
> I have the following entries in my /etc/fstab:
> 
> #/dev/sda                /raid/fc0               ext3     
> defaults,usrquota       1 2
> #/dev/sdb                /raid/fc1               ext3     
> defaults,usrquota       1 2
> #/dev/sdc                /raid/fc2               ext3     
> defaults,usrquota       1 2
> 
> #LABEL=FCraid0           /raid/fc0               ext3     
> defaults,usrquota       1 2
> #LABEL=FCraid1           /raid/fc1               ext3     
> defaults,usrquota       1 2
> #LABEL=FCraid2           /raid/fc2               ext3     
> defaults,usrquota       1 2
> 
> 
> If I un-comment the /dev/sd* entries and try to mount the partitions  I 
> get an error about a bad superblock.
> If I un-comment the /dev/sd* entries and restart the server I get an  
> error about a bad superblock when it tries to mount the partitions.
> If I un-comment the LABEL=FCraid* entries and try to mount the  
> partitions they mount just fine but Apache does not seem to recognize  
> directories on these mount points.
>     ( Apache is a different problem altogether, I think, but I though 
> it  worth mentioning as a possible symptom of the problem.)
> If I un-comment the LABEL=FCraid* entries and restart the server I  get 
> an error that it cannot find partitions with those labels.
> 
> Originally /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc were formatted as xfs when the  labels 
> were made. I reformatted them to ext3 when I found that Red  Hat 
> completely dropped xfs in RHEL4 but I did not change the label  when I 
> did the reformat.
> 
> These are 1.8TB partitions and about half full of data so I need to  be 
> very careful not to do anything that will damage the integrity of  the 
> data.
> 
> When using Red Hat 7.3 e LABEL=FCraid* entries in /etc/fstab work  just 
> fine.
> 
> Any suggestions on how I can get this to work?
> 
> Bruce
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