Subject: Re: Put home directories on second hard drive?
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2001 - 16:22:33 MST
/dev/sdb-what? Shouldn't there be a partition number here?
On Saturday, December 22, 2001, at 05:19 PM, Zeke Runyon wrote:
> oK. I went to the HD manufacturer's website and found where the jumpers
> were on the drive (on the bottom, when you take off the mounting
> plastic thing) and found how to A). Disable termination on the root
> drive and endable termination on the last (new) drive on the chain. B).
> Give each drive a unique SCSI ID (0 and 1).
>
> I booted up, formatted the drive, mounted it, put the files I wanted on
> it. Then I edited the /etc/fstab file, but when I rebooted it said that
> mounting /dev/sdb failed and said there could be a bad option, too many
> filesystems mounted (?), bad superblock on /dev/sdb, or wrong fs type
> (I said ext2, which is the type I mkfs'ed). I thought it could be a bad
> option, but couldn't figure out what I did.
>
> My current (problematic) /etc/fstab file:
>
> /dev/sda9 / ext2
> defaults 1 1
> /dev/sda8 swap swap
> defaults 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
> noauto,ro,user 0 0
> none /proc proc
> defaults 0 0
> none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs
> defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts
> gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /dev/sdb /home ext2
> default 1 1
>
> HELP!
>
>
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