Interesting, do you have raid or lvm enabled? > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of glenn > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:34 AM > To: Red Hat List > Subject: Re: RH9 - Can't add second drive - for backup. > > Harry - Thanks for your response. I tried this and got a new > message on boot: > > mount: label=/root duplicate - not mounted > > I guess this means I will have to relabel all six of the > partitions on my second drive? Sounds like time for a rant (at > Red Hat, Harry, not at you): > > Why can't RH9 understand the difference between "hda /label" > and "hdb /label"? Especially considering that RH7.3 apparently > has no problem with this. Even Windows can do this. > > Relabeling hdb partitions will not work in my application, which > is using the second drive as a backup. Ideally, I would use dd > to copy all the partitions from hda to hdb every night. If hda > crashes, all I have to do is change the jumpers for master and > slave, and I'm up and running on hdb. Been doing this for years > with RH7.3. > > Now I'm back to square one. Is there any way to make a backup > this accessible without adding hardware? -Glenn. > > Harry sez: > > "The problem is that on each disk you have a partition labeled > as "/". The program e2label uses partition lables so that even > if the device number changes mount is still able to figure out > which partition is supposed to be "/". > > "The easiest way to do this is to boot the system with the > install CD choosing "linux rescue" as the boot option. Ensure > that the rescue program doesn't try to mount your disks. > > "Then run: e2label /dev/hdb1 /YOURNAME HERE > (or whatever the other drive is) > > "Then boot your system normally, edit /etc/fstab and add and > entry for the new filesystem. > > "That should be all :-) > > "HTH, > Harry" > > > Quoting glenn <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > *> Here's the deal. I'm trying to add a fully-loaded RH9 IDE hard > *> drive to a computer that already has one. Have done this with > *> RH7.3 no problem. With RH9, I get this message on boot: > *> > *> mount: label=/ duplicate - not mounted > *> > *> I'm using lilo boot loader. The drives are jumpered correctly > *> for master and slave. I have tried using one or the other as > *> master and slave with the same result. When using either drive > *> alone, computer boots up fine. > *> > *> Any clue to fixing this appreciated. Thanks. -Glenn. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
