[mdlug] need fstab and/or openGL help

Wolfger wolfger at gmail.com
Thu May 10 20:13:20 EDT 2007


On 5/10/07, Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Wolfger wrote:

> > To start with, my drives aren't mounting properly. I copied the lines
> > right out of my old fstab into the new one, but my ~/Shared and
> > ~/torrents dirs don't get mounted.
>
>     wolfger at 1[~]$ cat /etc/fstab
>     # Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
>     /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
>     /dev/hda2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
>     /dev/hdb2 /home/wolfger/torrents ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
>     /dev/hdb5 /home/wolfger/Shared ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
>
> <snip>
> You say this is a new install, so I surmise that you let the
> installation program create and format your / correct?

Correct. / and swap were configged by the install, and work properly.
It's just hdb2 and hdb5 that aren't mounting, and I copied those lines
directly from my old, working fstab, but they aren't working now.

>  Little matter really, the first thing to do is get into a root
> shell and run:
>     #fdisk -l

wolfger at 1[~]$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       20318    10240271+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2           20319       22350     1024128   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3           22351      158816    68778864   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1           5       40131   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2               6       12164    97667167+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb3   *       12165       17028    39070080   83  Linux
/dev/hdb4           17029       36483   156272287+   5  Extended
/dev/hdb5           17029       36483   156272256   83  Linux

> You will likely find that
> what you are calling '/dev/hdb2' and '/dev/hdb5' have moved.

Doesn't appear so.


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