> > > On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:15:58 -0400 > > > Rich Mahn <rich@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I did a clean install of F11 x86_64 on a system that also has F10 > > > i686, F8, and others for a multi-boot situation. F11 is working > > > fairly well except for one problem. I can't mount one of my disks. > > snip > > > Does anybody have any ideas what might be causing this and how to fix > > > it? > > > > > Run blkid as root and make sure all your disks have the correct UUID > > in /etc/fstab. You should be mounting them using UUID instead of > > device name or label. > Thanks for telling me about blkid. A real useful tool. > > Here is a sample from my fstab: > > #/dev/sda1 > > UUID=c6e94dd5-0cc3-4940-ac15-cb0ea856fd9a /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > > #/dev/sda5 > > UUID=c94b5547-e098-45ca-8776-cce0e0cd6bac / ext4 defaults 1 1 > > Maybe you are already doing this. > > Compare the F10 and F11 /etc/fstab for these disks. Make sure the > > mount points are unique. > > You could check for bugs like this in bugzilla. > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com > Since I mount these drives manually, it's not the fstab--at least > I don't think it is. > I suspect udev or something like that. The kernel recognizes > the disks and paritions okay, but the device nodes for the partitions > are never created. They can be forced by appropriate fdisk/hdparm > or whatever that re-reads the label. But even then you can't mount > them. You can, however, dumpe2fs, dd, and many other useful things. > I think I started to run parted on the disk and aborted when I noticed > I had used the wrong disk. In the current state, F10 is fine and F11 > isn't. I tried to install F11 i686 to see if it was an X86_64 problem, > but now I can't install F11. It crashes when it tries to find disks. > It looks like maybe it thinks the disk in question is part of a raid > or something. > I can get rid of the problem by zeroing the disk. I'm going to see if > I can create the problem with parted. I just found something that probably indicates the problem to those who can understand these things. The command udevadm info --query=env --name=/dev/sdc has these extra line that a similar query on any other disk does not have: ID_FS_USAGE=raid ID_FS_TYPE=ddf_raid_member ID_FS_VERSION=02.00.00 ID_FS_UUID=_$ ID_FS_UUID_ENC=\x20\x20\x20\x20\xfa\x24\x0c Anybody have any idea what this means? Rich -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
