Mount Harddrives and update to Suse 10.2

midnightriderz · 01-19-2007, 07:06 PM

I am new to Linux and Suse 10.1 & having trouble mounting all my harddrives?
fstab is;
/dev/hda7 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda8 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

I found in Yast under hardware information my remaining harddrives;
/dev/hda
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdd
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb

I want all harddrives to be available upon booting into the gui format.

Also, what is the easiest way to upgrade from Suse 10.1 to 10.2 and is it worth upgrading?

Thanks for all the help. I have been reading through posts trying to find the answer til my eyes are bloodshot and tired.

Gsidious · 01-19-2007, 07:32 PM

You need to know what partitions are available on each hard drive. Looks like hda is your boot drive with both Windows and SuSE on it, and sda1 has an ntfs partition as well. So, what partitions are on hdb, hdd, and sdb?

Code:

fdisk -l

will show what partitions are on all of your drives. After you know what partitions are on the drives, you can just edit the /etc/fstab file and add the additional drives/partitions. If you still have questions, you might post the output of "fdisk -l".

On the question of upgrading from 10.1 -> 10.2, just do an upgrade install from the 10.2 install media, it should have no problem detecting the previous install. I've done it on my laptop without issue. It was worth it for me, YMMV...

midnightriderz · 01-19-2007, 07:59 PM

Here is the output of fdisk;

Disk /dev/hda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4105 32973381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 4106 10011 47439945 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 7143 10011 23045211 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 4106 4367 2104452 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 4368 5477 8916043+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 5478 7142 13374081 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 19457 156288321 42 SFS

Disk /dev/hdd: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 30401 244196001 42 SFS

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 14593 117218241 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14593 117218241 42 SFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 1027 MB, 1027604480 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3920 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 3920 1003504 6 FAT16
linux-qmqh:~ #

What is the proper format to list the drives in fstab?

Thanks again.

Gsidious · 01-19-2007, 08:43 PM

Well, SFS seems to be a Dynamic disk partition from your Win 2k/2k3 install. I don't have a sample to work with, but I would just try to mount it:

Code:

mkdir /windows/F
mount -t ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 /dev/hdb1 /windows/F
ls /windows/F

If you see your windows files, life is good.

Then you just edit the /etc/fstab and Add the lines at the bottom like so:

Code:

/dev/hdb1    /windows/F    ntfs   ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8  0 0

You should be able to do the same for each of the drives not currently setup. Just make sure you create a separate directory to mount each drive to.

If the mount fails, life is not so good,

and you don't need to do edit the fstab till you find a mount option that works... But I think this should work fine.