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#1 2010-07-02 02:57:01

Himari
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[SOLVED] Strange issue with mountpoints and filesystem on Arch 2010

Hello and have a good day to all,

I have been using Arch for quite some times, and I'm somewhat familiar with Arch installation process too - but that's with Arch 2009 and older versions.

However, yesterday, when I need to install a new machine with Arch i686, I booted from the CD, did partitioning... correctly. But when it came to choosing mount points and filesystem, I saw a strange partitioning as below :

(FYI, I partitioned my harddisk as sda1 (primary, 15GB for /, ext4), sda5 (logical, 1G for swap), sda6 (logical, 100+ GB for /home, ext4))
/dev/sda -> no fs
/dev/sda1 -> no fs
/dev/sda5 -> no fs
/dev/sda6 -> no fs

This may not be exact, but somehow like that, the problem is I don't know what to do or define the fs for /dev/sda cause it will be applied for the whole HD as I presume. In older versions of Arch, I don't see such issue cause only sda1, sda5, sda6 showed up and I chose /, swap and /home for each partitions separately. But if I don't choose anything for /dev/sda and just go ahead with sda1, sda5 and sda6, some error messages pops up telling me that I need to do something with /dev/sda as well (I'm not in that machine right now so I can't remember correcly, sorry)

Please help me with this case, thank you very much in advance
Cheers smile

Last edited by Himari (2010-07-06 02:25:53)

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#2 2010-07-02 03:05:51

cesura
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange issue with mountpoints and filesystem on Arch 2010

It would be helpful if you could somehow post that error smile It seems like most errors with the install process let you ignore them if you wish.

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#3 2010-07-02 03:44:03

Himari
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange issue with mountpoints and filesystem on Arch 2010

I just tested on a virtual machine, the error message, the error is :
"process_filesystem error
Error creating
file system jfs on
/dev/sda1"

In fact, it pops up for whatever filesystem that I selected (ext4, ext3, xfs)
Could it be that my .iso is faulty and I need to download a new one?

Otherwise, my problem is, in older versions, it never showed anything about the whole disk (/dev/sda) like this 2010 version, only sda1, sda5, sda6 and I just go ahead with each of them. This time, if I choose /dev/sda to select a fs, then I don't know which mountpoint should I define for the whole disk.

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#4 2010-07-02 03:53:00

cesura
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange issue with mountpoints and filesystem on Arch 2010

You can ignore the entire disk being listed (/dev/sda). It appears for me too, and I just ignore it.

As for the jfs error, that could be a jfs problem, a disk problem, or a multitude of other problems. Because I am not sure exactly about that part, I probably won't be of use. But I'll keep looking!

EDIT: Do you mean you were trying to format a filesystem onto /dev/sda?

Last edited by cesura (2010-07-02 03:54:07)

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#5 2010-07-02 03:58:55

Himari
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange issue with mountpoints and filesystem on Arch 2010

Thanks you for your kind response, itsbrad21
I will download a new .iso file to see if there's any difference. The one that I'm using is the dual i686+x86_64 .iso, I will get an i686 alone to see if it works and get back here.

As for the /dev/sda, it's just I don't know what to do with it as I have no experience with this in the older releases, I will take your advice and ignore it.

Cheers smile

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#6 2010-07-02 04:35:43

cesura
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange issue with mountpoints and filesystem on Arch 2010

No problem smile

To elaborate more, /dev/sda simple represents the disk as a whole, and something such as /dev/sda1 is an actual partition that you can create a filesystem on. If you wanted to assign a partition to use the whole disk, the label of that partition would be /dev/sda1. Think of it as "1st partition on device /dev/sda".

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#7 2010-07-06 02:25:39

Himari
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange issue with mountpoints and filesystem on Arch 2010

For some weird reasons, Arch 2010 is stuck at the mountpoints step and didn't let me continue, I downloaded a 2009 release and it worked fine, since I can just "pacman -Syu" so I guess 2009 or 2010 doesn't really matter to me tongue

Thanks for all the helps smile

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