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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Fstab problems with second hard drive

Hey everyone. My Arch install is my replacement for my strange hybrid of Mandriva 2006 plus Mandriva Cooker. Anyway...

The installation went great. But as I always do, I unplugged my second hard drive in case something silly happens. I seem to be having problens setting my fstab entry under Arch.

On Mandriva, the relevant entries were:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults  1 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 defaults 1 2

Now with Arch (auto-partitioning):

/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

so I tried:

/dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 defaults 0 1

and Arch is complaining that /backup is not a valid mount point. backup has been the mount point on this drive for months; and it was functioning fine until I installed Arch. Anyone have any ideas?

twiistedkaos

Member

Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Fstab problems with second hard drive

erm... Do this:

su -c 'mkdir /backup'

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Fstab problems with second hard drive

erm... Do this:

su -c 'mkdir /backup'

Ya know? This is half the reason I switched to Arch. I've become a Linux idiot over the years. 6 of them with Linux as my only OS and I forgot how to mount something.

Thanks.

twiistedkaos

Member

Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Fstab problems with second hard drive

erm... Do this:

su -c 'mkdir /backup'

Ya know? This is half the reason I switched to Arch. I've become a Linux idiot over the years. 6 of them with Linux as my only OS and I forgot how to mount something.

Thanks.

Haha, it's cool. I tend to forget little things also . I once wrote a bash script to chmod an entire directory when I could've just used: chmod -R <dir> LOL!