Topic: USB harddisk, mountpoint recognized, when i write to this its fills up sme hd

[painkiller]

i installed a usb harddisk on SME. In tail -f /var/log/messages the usb drive is mounted on usbdisk. When i let affa write to this destination the harddisk of sme is running full.
I won't write to the usb disk its look like its just a normal directoy then a mountpoint.
Someone has a idea how i can fix this?

[misnerspace]

What's the output when you execute the df command? Could you copy the results into your next post?

[painkiller]

partition table :

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       19457   156288321   83  Linux

Command (m for help):

tail -f /var/log/

Sep  5 19:41:31 server kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 11
Sep  5 19:41:31 server scsi.agent[23892]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0
Sep  5 19:43:04 server kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 11
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 12
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel:   Vendor: USB 2.0   Model: Storage Device    Rev: 0100
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel:  sda: sda1
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi9, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep  5 19:43:25 server kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 12
Sep  5 19:43:25 server scsi.agent[24131]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host9/target9:0:0/9:0:0:0


df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/main-root
                     114178680  41040432  67338312  38% /
/dev/md1                101018      9579     86223  10% /boot
none                    257528         0    257528   0% /dev/shm


strange, know it won't mount at all

[byte]

Moving this topic to the SME 7.x contribs forum, it is more appropriate there. Thanks!

[misnerspace]

have you tried mounting it manually? i.e. something like

mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk1

you need to check which dev your usb disk it is, on mine sda1 is my hard disk and sdb1 is my usb disk

[painkiller]

If i connect the usb disk the log gives me the above answer this must be /dev/sda1 that's also the partition i made. Its has to be somethint else that isn't working.

[Arnie]

As you can see by the df output, the disk does not mount automatically. Plugging the disk in will result in SME automatically creating the /media/usbdisk directory, but you still have to manually mount the disk.

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mount /media/usbdisk

Or, you can use the usb disk contrib and mount it via server-manager.

[misnerspace]

I had a similar 'problem' a while back. To make sure it was mounted a copied a large file to the mounted directory and checked to see if the usb disk's disk access lights flicked on (which they did). The big problem I had was identifying the device name

Can you copy and paste the contents of your /dev/ directory?

On mine I noticed the device files sdb, sdb1, sdb2 which turned out to the files for newly attached usb drive which I mounted by: mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk1

The following article really helped me out in terms of mounting the usb drive manually, although don't do step 5 (automount) unless you know what you're doing

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/mblotwijk/HowToGuides/AddExtraHardDisk.htm

[painkiller]

Thanks Arnie, that did't . How can i get it to automount, sme did't that before itself?

[painkiller]

Ok, this works i use affa for backup it has an option to automount, this is solved for me....

Thanks for your help

[EdelingF]

Tried this also, but I don't seem to get DAR to make a backup to my USB-harddisk.
The harddisk is mounted to /mnt/BackupHD :

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Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/main-root
              ext3    39091656  20383968  16721948  55% /
/dev/md1      ext3      101018     48051     47751  51% /boot
none         tmpfs      127384         0    127384   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1     ext3   480719056    106544 475728672   1% /mnt/BackupHD
I use smeserver-dar2-0.0.1-3dmay.noarch.rpm to make backups, which works fine when backing up to a webshare on a WindowsXP workstation connected to the server.
But when I enter /mnt/BackupHD as target for the backup, DAR doesn't work.
Am I doing something wrong?

[painkiller]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=35466.msg155151;topicseen#msg155151

This dit it for me, in the server  manager you can mount it and enable automount the next time you plug your usb in it works again.

good luck

[EdelingF]

Tried that, but it didn't do it for me. I've installed and removed it several times, but I can't get it to mount properly.
But if I do it manually like in
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/mblotwijk/HowToGuides/AddExtraHardDisk.htm
 the USB-disk is mounted.
I've also tried to mount the harddisk to /home like in the HowTo,; maybe there's something left which disturbs the mounting point?
I just bought the USB-harddisk to make backups of the server and several WinXP-workstations, do you know a contrib that's better than Dar2?

[painkiller]

MAybe affa suits you?

[EdelingF]

Maybe, but I thought Affa was only commandline?
I'm no newby, but also not very good with commandline issues. I would like something which apears in the server-manager.