After deciding the layout of my external (USB) 80GB harddrive, I used diskdrake to do the job of creating, formating and mouting the partitions. The layout is:
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sdb1 - /mnt/windoze - 10GB - vfat
sdb2 - /altroot - 10GB -ext3
sdb3 - swap - 512MB
sdb4 - /mnt/storage - the rest - ext3
Diskdrake took almost 3 hours to format sdb4!!
In my first boot I got some error messages like:
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poseidon fsck: /dev/sdb2:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
poseidon fsck: /dev/sdb5:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Apr 25 09:33:35 poseidon modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found.
So the system asked me if I wanted to fix the problem, I opted for Y and the boot went ahead.
What's the issue here? when creating the partitions I set all as being primary instead of extended, is it correct? That message saying the scsi module was not found is part of /var/log/message, don't know if the problem is related to it. I can read and write to /mnt/storage and /mnt/windoze as root
Here is my fstab:
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/dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/sdb2 /altroot ext3 noatime 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noatime 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/storage ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/windoze vfat umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
Thanks for the help or suggestions.