Adding New Hard Drive as Secondary Master
 

I recently set up a linux box to act as my PVR. I have the OS installed on a 5 gig hard drive (primary Master). I divided this drive into a boot partition, swap partition, and a partition for everything else. The CD ROM set up as the slave on the primary channel. I also had a 20gig drive installed the Secondary Channel as the Master, and set it to have a boot point of /myth (which would hold mythtv related stuff.

After I got everything running (OS installed, myth installed, etc) I noticed that my 20 gig drive was only recognizing 10 gigs worth of space. I don't really know why, but I suspect I made a mistake when I created the partition and only set it to 10 gigs. Either way, I thought I would fix it by removing the partition on the drive, and reformat it (to ext3) to include the entire drive.

To accomplish this, I
(1) Went into /etc/fstab and commented out the /dev/dhc drive so it would not mount at boot time, resulting in this file...
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# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#LABEL=/myth /myth ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=a/lang/Object swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,
managed 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0


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(2) Rebooted
3) fdisk 'd and reformatted


and now for the question.....

I figured I could just go back to fstab and just uncomment /dev/hdc/ so that the drive gets mounted, but when I do this the system complains and won't load. How do I add my drive back into the system???


Thanks in advance....

e2label /dev/hdc1 myth


Cheers,
Tink

Well, I tried adding the line as you suggested and it didn't work.

============================================
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
e2label /dev/hdc1 myth
#LABEL=/myth /myth ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=a/lang/Object swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom2 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

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When it loads, it cannot mount the drive. When I try this:
mount /dev/hdc1
I get:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'myth'


Any idea what I should try next? Thanks.

That line doesn't go into fstab. It's being run from
a shell as root. I assume that you didn't use any
GUI tools to re-create the partition? If you didn't
it won't have a label, which is what you're referencing
from the fstab.

The alternative would be to just change the line from
LABEL=/myth /myth ext3 defaults 1 1
to
/dev/hdc /myth ext3 defaults 1 1

All of that of course assumes that when you said you
formatted it you used ext3 as the file-system as well.


Cheers,
Tink

Makes sense...sorry, newbie at work!

I will try it tonight....

Thanks again.