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Title: Mounting of extra disks fails at new sme 7.0 install
Post by: adegoeij on December 27, 2006, 02:12:10 AM
Hi all,
 i am trying to add extra disks, but i did not manage to.

the extra disk is at hdd

so i created /mnt/hdd1
and created a ext3 partition there and put file system on it.
But then the trouble starts:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount: /dev/hdd1 already mounted or /mnt/hdd1 busy
[root@thunderbird /]# ls -l /mnt
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root admin   13 Dec 24 10:50 floppy -> /media/floppy
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root  4096 Dec 21 17:04 hdb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec 21 17:04 hdd1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec 21 17:04 hdd2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec 27 01:27 service
[root@thunderbird /]# ll /dev/hd*
brw-rw----  1 root disk  3,  0 Jan  1  2001 /dev/hda
brw-rw----  1 root disk  3,  1 Jan  1  2001 /dev/hda1
brw-rw----  1 root disk  3,  2 Jan  1  2001 /dev/hda2
brw-rw----  1 root disk  3, 64 Jan  1  2001 /dev/hdb
brw-rw----  1 root disk  3, 65 Jan  1  2001 /dev/hdb1
brw-rw----  1 root disk 22,  0 Jan  1  2001 /dev/hdc
brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 64 Jan  1  2001 /dev/hdd
brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 65 Dec 27 01:51 /dev/hdd1
[root@thunderbird /]# mount
/dev/mapper/main-root on / type ext3 (rw,usrquota,grpquota)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/md1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
[root@thunderbird /]# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/mapper/main-root / ext3 rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/md1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0



i have also tried to add to raid with mdadm or lvm, but it is always the same. I seems to be accessible, but exclusive access is not possible
(seen with strace)

What can i do?

Thank you all
Title: Mounting of extra disks fails at new sme 7.0 install
Post by: meanpenguin on December 27, 2006, 08:16:26 PM
This was for SME6

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/extra%20hard%20disk

But you should be able to mount your new drive using this HowTo.

If you are not using raid, it should work.

ed
Title: Mounting of extra disks fails at new sme 7.0 install
Post by: adegoeij on December 28, 2006, 08:34:13 AM
Thanks Ed. That is how i did that before the upgrade to sme7.
I had 2 disks filled with movies and mp3 that i wanted to keep, so i removed them before the upgrade and replaced them after...
But i could not manage, with mentioned commands.. While syntactical all
the commands are ok, i suspected some problem somewhere but did not managed. I googled all the newsgroups and centos groups but did not found something simular.
Title: Mounting of extra disks fails at new sme 7.0 install
Post by: Gaston94 on December 29, 2006, 11:40:37 AM
Hi,
I can confirm there should not be any issue to add an extra disk to a SME7 install.
Could we guess that on a first time you do not exactly type the above command and from now as
Quote from: "adegoeij"
have also tried to add to raid with mdadm or lvm, but it is always the same. I seems to be accessible, but exclusive access is not possible

you disk is now part of the raid array, which lock it as busy.
Check with a mdadm -D that hdd has not been placed under the raid control.

I am also confused with this
Quote
so i created /mnt/hdd1
and created a ext3 partition there and put file system on it.

this does not have many meaning in Linux word : you cannot create a FS within a directory.
you should have :!: caution :!: do not use it on disk with data you don't want to loose :!:
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fdisk /dev/hdd ##create a partition on the disk
mke2fs /dev/hdd1 ## create file system on the partition
mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1  ## mount point for your disk - have to exists


G.
Title: Re: Mounting of extra disks fails at new sme 7.0 install
Post by: petit_quebec on September 14, 2007, 09:08:06 PM
I am experiencing the same problem
i have a running sme7 server with 1x IDE drive
i installed a sata drive, I can see, partition and format the drive
it works fine on my ubuntu desktop
but there is no way i can get it mounted on the sme server
tried doing the usual /etc/fstab in run level 1 .. nop, the drive is always busy doing something else

i need help

merci,