coverup Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hi there, I recently added a secondary SATA HDD to my old Mandrake 10.1 desktop. The drive is recognized as /dev/sda1 and is formatted as ext3 filesystem. MDK was unable to mount it properly on start up, and I added the following entry to /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /backup ext3 umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users 0 0 Despite that, the drive was painfully slow until I manually unmounted and mounted it with a command mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /backup After that I could read and write to the HDD OK. The problem is that I have to mount the drive manually after every reboot. If I don't, then 1. ls lists a different list of files on the drive from what should be there! I suspect those files were put there while the drive was not mounted properly 2. Why can I see anything at all on the partition /backup after it has been unmounted? Here is what I mean # mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) /dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw) none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) # ls /backup a-Fri.tgz a-Sat.tgz a-Thu.tgz a-Wed.tgz a-Mon.tgz a-Sun.tgz a-Tue.tgz Note that the partition /backup and device /dev/sda1 are not on the list of mounted partitions, yet ls /backup shows there are files on it! Where can I find those files? They disappear after the HDD is mounted manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 There's a /backup directory under your root partition. I expect you see whatever's there when the drive is unmounted. Then when you mount the drive under /backup, you see in /backup whatever's on the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted November 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 Ah, you are right! And I was wondering why / partition was nearly full! Thanks! Now, can anybody tell what's wrong with the fstab entry? The drive does not mount on boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 noauto, would be the culprit. :D Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 I tried removing noauto, and replacing with auto or with nothing. Both ways, I get an error: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist How can this be fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Quick and easy solution might be to put the mount command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (and add back the noauto option in fstab). Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Quick and easy solution might be to put the mount command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (and add back the noauto option in fstab). Jim In fact, I did try this method, but the drive did not mount anyway - don't know why.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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