120Gb HDD Formatted and Mounted

[Wigan]

Hi all, I'm a Linux idiot, so talk slow ..

OK, my problem is as follows ..

I've wiped a 120GB HDD to use under Linux as a storage option.. I've formatted it under ext3 in YaST and then set about mounting it as /stuff ..

This is a detailed description of what i am encountering;

This is exactly what I'm doing, in YaST ..

The drive is completely unmounted, all partitions are wiped ..

I then click on create, click OK for /dev/hda and select primary partition, then format file system ext3, no mount point selected .. click OK, then apply ..

It then formats /dev/hda ..

Then, on /dev/hda1 i click "edit" and select "do not format" , but then select a mount point as /stuff ..

Click OK, then apply ..

I then get the error again saying .. "no changes made so far could be performed"

I MUST be doing something wrong, but what? ..

Any help would be 100% appreciated. I have another 40GB HDD, but I've backed that up with all the stuff from the 120GB i need to keep, so there is literally about 3GB left on the 40GB drive ..

So, to get this 120GB to be fully readable and writable would be brilliant ..

Cheers

[smolloy]

It sounds like you have done everything correctly, so I am a little confused.

Questions:
Why didn't you do the formatting and mounting as one step?
Did you create the mount point (/stuff) before going through the steps in YAST?

[Wigan]

It sounds like you have done everything correctly, so I am a little confused.

Questions:
Why didn't you do the formatting and mounting as one step?
Did you create the mount point (/stuff) before going through the steps in YAST?

Hi,

I tried to do it all as one step, but I get the same message in YaST, so i thought i'd do it seperately and see what i could find out ..

The mount point was created after going through the steps in YaST. I created the mount point in YaST however, by selecting "do not format harddrive" and keeping it under 0x83 linux ..

[smolloy]

What I meant was, have you created the folder "/stuff" where you are trying to mount your drive? The folder needs to exist before anything can be mounted there!!

sudo mkdir /stuff

Type that to create the folder, then try mounting it with YAST again.

[Wigan]

OK,

did that and it told me the folder already existed, even after unmounting it and deleting the /dev/hda1 reference ..

I then created a folder called /things .. Tried all the process again and i get the same "no changes made so far could be performed" message ..

[devils casper]

post the output of 'fdisk -l' here. you must be 'root' to execute fdisk command.






Casper

[Wigan]

Disk /dev/hda: 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/hda1 1 13056 104864737 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 4998 40146403+ 83 Linux


This is what I got ..

[devils casper]

i assume that you already created folder /things. execute this

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /things

check 'things' folder.
post the contents of /etc/fstab file.





casper

[Wigan]

In the "things" folder there was a folder called "lost+found" .. When clicked on it said :

"could not enter folder lost+found"

My fstab is as follows :

/dev/hdb1 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocha rset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda1 /things ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2

[devils casper]

okk ! create new mount point.

mkdir /media/things

in /etc/fstab file, change

/dev/hda1 /things ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2

to

/dev/hda1    /media/things   ext3     defaults,umask=0 0 0

save file and execute 'mount -a'.








casper