Okay, another "drives" problem.

atticus · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 2:49 am Post subject: Okay, another "drives" problem.

I have three 2 gig hard drives in my machine. They're all the same make and model.

During the installation process, I cfdisked them, and made /dev/hda my main gentoo drive, /dev/hdb for /usr and /dev/hdc for /var.

I created the mount points, as told to, i.e.

rac · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:43 am Post subject:

I bet it's still mounted read-only as vfat. If so, try searching the forums for "ghost and superblock".
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lx · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 12:10 pm Post subject:

The problem defined by rac (old vfat block screws up mount autodetection of partition type) should give errors during untarring the image, but as you stated this succeeds.

The /var/tmp dir and other files are in the tar image file, so probably you extracted them to one partition instead of over the already mounted structure (check if they exist by doing ls /var, ;-)

), so mounting on var will give the empty partition, if so just untar over the mounted structure or mount the files on a temporary empty dir and mv the files into the correct partition. (ea. mv /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/* /mnt/tmp).

Hope you fix it,

Cya lX.
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rac · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 5:45 pm Post subject:

atticus · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 5:47 pm Post subject:

Nope! A much easier solution was brought to me in a PM by a friendly forum user!

This user suggested to me, mounting the partitions explicitly using -t.

i.e.

rac · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:35 pm Post subject:

That's exactly what I was talking about. Does this solution survive a reboot?
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atticus · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:40 pm Post subject:

no telling yet. I'm still compiling/building....

lx · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:18 pm Post subject:

Well in /etc/fstab the filetype is stated, so it probably survives a reboot, but I don't think the remaining vfat block is overwritten (ever), so you can run in some trouble later on, well if you mount it manually just remember to give the correct type,

Cya lX.
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atticus · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 10:03 pm Post subject:

Okay, "grub" went fine. I think it froze the last time because of a defective 3 gig drive I had in my machine. I removed it, and replaced it with a different two-gigger.

Anyway, I ran

atticus · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 10:36 pm Post subject:

I guess it's no cause for alarm, since I seem to be booting just fine.

Where's the cool splash screen logo?

All I got was a goofy little menu... :O

BradN · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 3:37 am Post subject:

Yeah, ext3 is just ext2 with journalling added on - it can be read with ext2 drivers just fine as far as I know.

uziel · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 32

As long as there is no data on the disk, you could as well use dd to clean up the beginning of the disk or partition. Just