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Hi, Hopefully someone can provide guidance (enlightenment?) to this relatively newbie Debian admin. I recently built a Debian 4.0 stable system on an HP ProLiant DL380 G3 hardware platform (x86 32 bit). The Server has five 72GB hot swap SCSI disks and I configured two arrays (using the HP ACU) - one logical disk 72GB RAID1 to house the O/S and the remaining 200GB array as a second logical disk which I intend to use as storage for FTP upload/download. VSFTPD is installed and running, I have generated and installed a Certificate, everything there is fine. What I need help with is in using the available space on the second logical disk. I suspect I fudged the partitioning - I THOUGHT I partitioned the 200GB drive as EXT3 and the space was available for use, but here is what is happening. I created a directory under /home named "secureftp." I also added this entry to my FSTAB, contents of which look like this: SERVERNAME:/# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /securedata ext3 defaults 0 0 Now, when I try to mount this directory, wishing to place it on the 200GB storage array (sorry if I am not wording this correctly, my background is in Windows and have only been working with Linux for a couple years) I run the command "mount -t ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /securedata" the system responds with "mount: wrong fs type, bad option..." Hopefully you will know what I mean without me having to type out the rest of the message. In the message I am directed to have a look at syslog so I issue the command as follows: SERVERNAME:/# dmesg | tail heads= 255, sectors= 32, cylinders= 52299 cciss/c0d1: p1 < > blocks= 426759840 block_size= 512 heads= 255, sectors= 32, cylinders= 52299 cciss/c0d1: p1 < > attempt to access beyond end of device cciss/c0d1p1: rw=0, want=4, limit=2 EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock I thought the "superblock" was the 5% of space reserved by the system so I can perform root maintenance should the disk become full, the data corrupt, etc. Anyway, would someone please (and be kind...) tell me what I am doing wrong, how I can fix it, and provide the steps I need to follow in order to successfully mount the 200GB storage partition? Thanks for much!!! Dov |