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Hello Stephen, Thank you for taking the time to reply. The O/S is on a mirrored array, and the storage array is RAID5. The command I used to create the partition is exactly as you wrote "mkfs.ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1" Indeed, I created a directory under /home and named it "secureftp." I want to mount just the "secureftp" directory. Is there something wrong with the command syntax I used? I entered the command exactly as I wrote in my original e-mail. Ok, so the system can't find my target file system, would you please explain why so I may know where I went wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks > From: bss@iguanasuicide.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Partitioning and allocating a logical disk.... > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:24:15 -0600 > > > RAID-0? I assume this is only temporary storage then, yes? If one drive > fails in a RAID-0, the entire array is toast. > > > What tool did you use? There's no partition type specifically for ext3, > AFAIK. Even if there was, you'd still need to create the filesystem. To do > that from the command-line something like "mkfs.ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1" would > be required. > > > 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 > > I assume it's not missing all the newlines and your mailer just screwed that > up? If not, that might be part of your problem. > > Also, your prose above indicates you wanted it mounted at /home/secureftp, but > your fstab entry says you want it at /securedata. Make sure you are > consistent. > > > I run > > the command "mount -t ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /securedata" the system > > responds with "mount: wrong fs type, bad option..." > > Basically, that means that it can't find the filesystem you've specified. > > > 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 devicecciss/c0d1p1: rw=0, want=4, limit=2EXT3-fs: > > unable to read superblock > > Attempt to access beyond the end of device is a bit unusual. I suppose that > might simply have been the ext3 driver looking for one of the extra recovery > superblocks. For now, I'll ignore it and focus on "unable to read > superblock" which means the filesystem is either corrupt or hasn't been > created yest. > > > 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. > > No, the superblock is the area of the filesystem (usually stored toward the > beginning of the drive) that contains information about the filesystem as a > whole. For example, it generally stores what size the filesystem thinks it > is, what block size is in use (if the fs supports multiple block sizes), any > options or sub-options that are expected to be persistent, maybe a free space > list or bitmap, etc. It also stores things like UUID and LABEL. Most, if > not all, filesystems have one. > > The reserved space and inodes are fairly ext[234] specific -- most other > filesystems will let you shoot yourself in the foot quite easily. Also, even > on ext[234] that percentage is adjustable and can be eliminated entirely if > need be. UNIX and Linux systems traditionally behave very poorly, if at all, > when no filesystem can be written to -- a lot of programs/scripts require at > least some scratch space. This reservation by ext[234] can make it quite a > bit easier to recover from that state. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ |