[hllug] Aid fixing fstab
- From: Herb Cee <hc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:39:02 -0500
Hi all If more info is needed please feed me the code.
I sure need fixing. My /etc/fstab is messed and I have spent hours
reading all I could google and it still is confusing to me. This could
be a senior problem since I begin my #80 orbit next Mon the 14th. I
complete orbit #79, I claiming that as excuse LOL. I can tell ya one
thing fer sur is this growing old crap ain't for sissies, arrrggg.
Box is P-4 ECS945G-M3, Intel 3.0G dualcore, 3G DDR2 800 running Unbuntu
8.04 desktop on 5 port router, 2 desktops U-804, 1 desktop Win-XP
sharing w/samba.
My objective for this box is to mount a 2nd 200GB SATA HD as sdb with 3
partitions that have been created and sdb1 already contains a backup
copy of all data on sda3/home. I want to put a copy of Win-ME on sdb2,
if I can but not sure about that. I flagged it in gparted for boot. Does
that create a MBR that Windows can understand?
I opened Gparted and formated sdb2 ->FAT32, sdb3 ->ext3. Currently I can
access /home on sda3 & sdb1 /media/BackupAuto. Opening Places menu I see
Computer + 4 partitions only the sdb1 is mounted (43.3G), mounting
(3.8G) opens in /media/disk-1, mounting (5.2G) is /media/disk-2,
mounting (141.6G) os /media/disk-3.
Now looking in gparted I see sda1 is /media/disk-1 (3.57G), sda6 is /
(171.2G), sda2 is extended and unmounted (182.74G), sda5&7 are both
marked swap (5.78Gea) total 186.33 (ignoring sda2???)
sdb1 is /media/BackupAuto (49.6G), sdb2 is /media/disk-2 (4.88G), sdb3
is /media/disk-3 (131.8G) total is 186.28G Why are there 2 swap
partitions? Can I reformat one of them?
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fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00026e35
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 466 3743113+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 467 24321 191615287+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 23568 24321 6056473+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 467 22813 179502214+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 22814 23567 6056473+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0003f81b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 638 7111 52002405 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 * 1 637 5116671 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb3 7112 24321 138239325 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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Here is : df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 170G 26G 136G 17% /
varrun 1.5G 236K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 84K 1.5G 1% /dev
devshm 1.5G 192K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 40M 1.5G 3%
/lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb1 50G 22G 25G 47% /media/BackupAuto
gvfs-fuse-daemon 170G 26G 136G 17% /home/herb/.gvfs
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Here is my current fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=7f626614-47e8-4bfd-9e3a-4a6ffbf7dca6 / ext3
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=22104377-90f8-4b16-a007-b9cfb68675df none swap
sw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/BackupAuto ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
# /dev/sdc1 /media/BackupManual ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
#
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Contents of directories /mnt & /media
herb@Belf:~$ ls /media
BackupAuto BackupManual cdrom cdrom0 disk linuxstore samba
herb@Belf:~$ ls /mnt
satasdb1
herb@Belf:~$
My best guess is to rewrite the fstab enterring all the partitions I
want to be mounted using the form like the removed line
/dev/sdc1 /media/BackupManual ext3 defaults 0 2
so be.....
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# HD partitions
/dev/sda1 /media/disk-1 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sdb1 /media/BackupManual ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sdb2 /media/disk-2 fat32 defaults 0 2
/dev/sdb3 /media/disk-3 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sdc1 /media/BackupManual ext3 defaults 0 2
# CD & Flop
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
#
Then I would add directories /disk-1, /disk-2, /disk-3.
Thanks for looking at this and getting me sorted out
herb
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