On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:11:18PM -0500, Tenacious One wrote:
> Hmm, maybe I'm doing something wrong. It looks as though I created it ok:
>
> #df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2 3.2G 2.5G 510M 84% /
> /dev/hda1 99M 9.2M 85M 10% /boot
> none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb1 3.2G 2.5G 510M 84% /
The problem is you've mounted it on / - the same place /dev/hda2 is
mounted.
> Above command shows, it's only 510M free??? Yet it's a 13G drive:
The free space it's reporting is the same because it's the free space on
/, not the drive. df works on filesystems, not drives.
> I tried to create a directory that I could add to the /etc/fstab to
> mount at boot:
>
> # mkdir /dev/hdb1/data
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/hdb1/data': Not a directory
>
> I want to use all of the drive as a mount point, say, "Data", what am
> I doing wrong?
If you haven't created a file system on it, you should do that first:
# mkfs.ext3 -j -L data /dev/hdb1
Then create an empty you want to use to mount the filesystem into:
# mkdir /data
And finally mount that partition into that directory. If there are
files in the directory you use, you'll hide what's underneath so it
should always be empty.
# mount /dev/hdb1 /data
When you put the entry in fstab, it should be like so (space it to line
up everything else in fstab for readability):
LABEL=data /data ext3 defaults 1 2
Always mount by label, never by physical partition.
Cheers,
.../Ed
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