Partition mounting under RHEL4

[Bruce W. Martin]

I will not be able to check until next week but I think this may be  
enough hints to fix this.
I will report back when I get more information and answers to your  
questions.
BTW, when using e2label to create a label is it destructive to the  
partition? I don't want to lose data on these partitions.

Thanks,
Bruce

On Mar 30, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Alfred Hovdestad wrote:

> 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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