On 09/07/12 05:12 PM, Mark Panen wrote:
On 09/07/2012 20:02, Gary Dale wrote:On 09/07/12 01:47 PM, Mark Panen wrote:Hi, I have followed this except to replace ext3 with ext4: http://linux.justinhartman.com/Installing_a_second_hard_drive I installed a new HDD and installed Squeeze on it. When i open My Computer in Gnome i can see and mount the other two HDD's. But i cannot get the /etc/fstab entry right, on boot i get fsck errors on the other two HDD's. Mount them with: mount -t ext4 /dev/hdc1 /new-disk as an example works once the system is up. but the /etc/fstab example does not when i reboot. Is it perhaps that i have the boot flag entry on the other two HDD's?Can you post the lines from your /etc/fstab referring to the two disks?#/dev/sda /mnt/store9 ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0 #/dev/sdb /mnt/store3 ext4 noatime,defaults 0 0
1) if these your lines, they are commented out so they will be ignored.2) if the actual lines don't include the "#", you need the partition number and not just the drive device (i.e. /dev/sda should probably be something like /dev/sda1) 3) the /dev/sda line includes "errors=remount-ro", which tells the system to remount it read-only if errors are detected, but the last "0" tells the system to not check the partition. The final "0" should be "2" for any non-root partition (you want it checked after the "/" partition, otherwise it can't be mounted).
4) do the directories /mnt/store3 and /mnt/store9 exist?5) are the device letters correct? In your original e-mail you referred to /dev/hdc1, not /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The device designation doesn't change between the command line and /etc/fstab. They should be the same in both cases.