FSTAB help plz?!?!

Kapt Nemo · 05-06-2007, 07:41 PM

Over the weekend I decided to install XUBUNTU, and I'm having a problem getting my two extra hard drives to mount and be written to. I edited the fstab to what i thought it should be, but still no luck.

Quote:

From FSTAB file
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda1
UUID=3c86f6f7-0da4-43da-8edf-09f302873092 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 1 1
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=e4aa9499-ae37-4d0f-8474-61444da7d54b /mnt/datadrive ext3 defaults 1 2
# /dev/hdc1
UUID=1cc1ae5d-d1a4-4bbe-b6b1-187c515b1955 /mnt/mediadrive ext3 defaults 1 2
# /dev/hda2
UUID=a3dbebfb-cf68-42f6-b70a-4c68c85182ca swap swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0

From what I could find this looks ok. What is happening is hdb1 and hdc1 are my two extra hard drives they show up in /media as a 4.0kb folder... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The Nemo...

Okie · 05-06-2007, 08:49 PM

yuppers, you can thank UUID for your problems, there was nothing wrong with /dev/hd? (the old way) the ubuntu developers should know if it ain't broke dont fix it...

UUID has made me dislike the *Ubuntus to the point i want to flame them worse than ms-windows...

you will see in the future a lot of people having problems because of UUID...

tommcd · 05-07-2007, 03:05 AM

Yeah, forget the UUID stuff. Back up your fstab first, then change it back to the old way for drives #2 and #3 like this:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/datadrive ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdc1 /mnt/mediadrive ext3 defaults 1 2

Make sure you have the mountpoints /mnt/datadrive and /mnt/mediadrive setup in /mnt. See if this works.

jschiwal · 05-07-2007, 04:11 AM

I don't necessarily agree. Are these "extra" drives external drives? If so, then if you were to plug them in on a latter date, they may be assigned different device numbers. Using the UUID number, you can plug in different drives and have fstab entries for them. For example, you could plug in one that you only use for backups occasionally, and have a situation where you have more external drives than usb ports.

I have my external drives mounted this way, with UUID= instead of devices in /etc/fstab. The problem may be something else.

Try using "sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb" & "sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdc".
You can also use /dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid#>/

Kapt Nemo · 05-07-2007, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jschiwal

I don't necessarily agree. Are these "extra" drives external drives? If so, then if you were to plug them in on a latter date, they may be assigned different device numbers. Using the UUID number, you can plug in different drives and have fstab entries for them. For example, you could plug in one that you only use for backups occasionally, and have a situation where you have more external drives than usb ports.

I have my external drives mounted this way, with UUID= instead of devices in /etc/fstab. The problem may be something else.

Try using "sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb" & "sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdc".
You can also use /dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid#>/

They are both internal 3.5 drives... but unfortunately I found that as of yet there are no working sound drivers for my EM-u 0404 sound card.. looks like I'm waiting until then to give Linux another chance...