RE: [newbie] XFS Mount
I was disappointed with the bit torrent speed too. I have used it before for other downloads and it was fast. For some reason the Mandrake iso's were slow, and like Tom said the upload for other people was better. I stopped after an hour as I had 36 hours left on one iso (and growing) and did it from an ftp server instead. All 3 iso's in 6 hours. Tony. -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] XFS Mount On Wednesday August 27 2003 12:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday August 26 2003 09:54 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Miark wrote: It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted? Miark There are no entries for either drive in mtab. mtab is generated from fstab, an shouldn't be fooled with Brant, try puttin your 1st CD in an check the partitions with the installers diskdrake. It could be that when you used diskdrake the changes were never made, or the partitions were never formatted for XFS, an they're still ReiserFS. Probly cause the partitions weren't unmounted. Also, with either ReiserFS or XFS, Civileme use to suggest a ext3 /boot partition. IME, it was/is good advice. I did exactly that and that is what I found. I posted my findings to the expert list last evening. I forgot to post them here as well. Well, jeez, I had that notion when you first posted the problem, but with the chronology mismatches in the lists, I often see responses before the original problem ;( So I was a little reluctant to jump in, since I was only seein others diagnosis of the problem. No sooner than I hit 'send', I saw a reply from you that you'd figured it out by yourself. Good for you ;) I don't believe it's a diskdrake bug tho. MOF, it's a feature to safeguard still mounted partitions. The only bug would be that diskdrake didn't tell you that nothin was done to disk, since the partitions weren't successfully unmounted to be reformatted. An I believe the developers are already aware of, an workin on that. I've been aware that diskdrake runnin from CD is much better than foolin with it on the booted system. Actually that's the resolution IMO, just always use diskdrake from the 1st CD. Then it's bulletproof ;) IIRC, you're runnin cooker. FWIW, RC1 iso's look like they're comin to the mirrors today. The beta2 iso's are gone, and so far the RC1 md5sum file is posted. So maybe ya want to wait for those before fixin your partitions. I saw that. Warly, from Mandrakesoft, released the bittorrent info for them: btdownloadheadless.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586. iso.torrent --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso Yeah an bittorrent sux for me. That's why I bitched'n moaned on the cooker list to get the iso's posted to ftp. bittsux has been workin on CD2 3 for almost 20 hours now, about 50% done. I've never been much of a p2p fan. Now I'm fixin to be an enemy of it. I shortened the url an took a look at the site first. All 3 iso's were there. Soon after I pasted Warly's CL into a term, it dawned on me the if I just changed the 1 to a 2 after both 'CD's, I could start a CD2 'torrent' (what'a misnomer). Same with 3. OTOH, we all need to get along, so I'm letin all three iso's to be uploaded from my connection. Even tho I'm givin far more than gettin. I'm gettin tired of Mandrake's increasing games as releases get closer to final tho. I was only amused when they resorted to false names for iso's, but this bitchtorrent method really sux. At least my complaint (maybe?) got Warly to post the 1st CD. It was d/l'd and burned within the hour. I only need the damn things for backup anyhow, and to take a look at the installer. I'm already past RC1. Be even further if the primary mirror (sunsite) ever straightens out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted? Miark On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:27:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did mount -t xfs /dev/hdg1 /drive2. This is the correct drive and mount point. This combo worked for a long time using reiserfs. The pertinent lines from my fstab file are: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 What did diskdrake do wrong? I sure as heck didn't change anything. I let the expert (diskdrake) do it and it screwed up. I still haven't received my first post. Interesting.. This may be irrelevant as I have no experience with xfs partitions, but, shouldn't the lines be something like, /dev/hdg1 /mnt/drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /mnt/drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 John They would appear that way only if I was mounting them to /mnt/drive2 and /mnt/drive3. You can mount them to any directory on the machine. I chose to mount them to /drive2 and /drive3. Very late last night I found them problem. It matches up perfectly with what Tom suggested. diskdrake never made the conversion from reiserfs to xfs, it only changed the fstab entries. So Mandrake was trying to the mount reiserfs formatted drives as if they were xfs formatted drives. You can imagine how well that worked. I mounted them as reiserfs and found that they were still working as reiser. I then unmounted them, after recovering the data that was on them, and manually created the xfs partition using mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/hdg1 for drive2 and mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/hdh1 for drive3. I then changed the entries in fstab from: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 reiserfs notail 1 2 to: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 Bingo! All done. Thanks for the suggestion though. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 13:10:00 up 8:35, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.13, 0.13 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday August 26 2003 09:54 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Miark wrote: It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted? Miark There are no entries for either drive in mtab. mtab is generated from fstab, an shouldn't be fooled with Brant, try puttin your 1st CD in an check the partitions with the installers diskdrake. It could be that when you used diskdrake the changes were never made, or the partitions were never formatted for XFS, an they're still ReiserFS. Probly cause the partitions weren't unmounted. Also, with either ReiserFS or XFS, Civileme use to suggest a ext3 /boot partition. IME, it was/is good advice. I did exactly that and that is what I found. I posted my findings to the expert list last evening. I forgot to post them here as well. Was that cross-posting? If so...sue me (as long as it can be demonstrated that the exact same people frequent both lists). I do what it takes to get the job done. :-P Thanks for the suggestions. :-) IIRC, you're runnin cooker. FWIW, RC1 iso's look like they're comin to the mirrors today. The beta2 iso's are gone, and so far the RC1 md5sum file is posted. So maybe ya want to wait for those before fixin your partitions. I saw that. Warly, from Mandrakesoft, released the bittorrent info for them: btdownloadheadless.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso.torrent --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 13:00:00 up 8:25, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.14, 0.10 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
On Wednesday August 27 2003 12:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday August 26 2003 09:54 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Miark wrote: It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted? Miark There are no entries for either drive in mtab. mtab is generated from fstab, an shouldn't be fooled with Brant, try puttin your 1st CD in an check the partitions with the installers diskdrake. It could be that when you used diskdrake the changes were never made, or the partitions were never formatted for XFS, an they're still ReiserFS. Probly cause the partitions weren't unmounted. Also, with either ReiserFS or XFS, Civileme use to suggest a ext3 /boot partition. IME, it was/is good advice. I did exactly that and that is what I found. I posted my findings to the expert list last evening. I forgot to post them here as well. Well, jeez, I had that notion when you first posted the problem, but with the chronology mismatches in the lists, I often see responses before the original problem ;( So I was a little reluctant to jump in, since I was only seein others diagnosis of the problem. No sooner than I hit 'send', I saw a reply from you that you'd figured it out by yourself. Good for you ;) I don't believe it's a diskdrake bug tho. MOF, it's a feature to safeguard still mounted partitions. The only bug would be that diskdrake didn't tell you that nothin was done to disk, since the partitions weren't successfully unmounted to be reformatted. An I believe the developers are already aware of, an workin on that. I've been aware that diskdrake runnin from CD is much better than foolin with it on the booted system. Actually that's the resolution IMO, just always use diskdrake from the 1st CD. Then it's bulletproof ;) IIRC, you're runnin cooker. FWIW, RC1 iso's look like they're comin to the mirrors today. The beta2 iso's are gone, and so far the RC1 md5sum file is posted. So maybe ya want to wait for those before fixin your partitions. I saw that. Warly, from Mandrakesoft, released the bittorrent info for them: btdownloadheadless.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586. iso.torrent --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso Yeah an bittorrent sux for me. That's why I bitched'n moaned on the cooker list to get the iso's posted to ftp. bittsux has been workin on CD2 3 for almost 20 hours now, about 50% done. I've never been much of a p2p fan. Now I'm fixin to be an enemy of it. I shortened the url an took a look at the site first. All 3 iso's were there. Soon after I pasted Warly's CL into a term, it dawned on me the if I just changed the 1 to a 2 after both 'CD's, I could start a CD2 'torrent' (what'a misnomer). Same with 3. OTOH, we all need to get along, so I'm letin all three iso's to be uploaded from my connection. Even tho I'm givin far more than gettin. I'm gettin tired of Mandrake's increasing games as releases get closer to final tho. I was only amused when they resorted to false names for iso's, but this bitchtorrent method really sux. At least my complaint (maybe?) got Warly to post the 1st CD. It was d/l'd and burned within the hour. I only need the damn things for backup anyhow, and to take a look at the installer. I'm already past RC1. Be even further if the primary mirror (sunsite) ever straightens out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFS Mount
Hello, How do you get an XFS drive mounted when it doesn't want to? I had two storage drive running rieserfs. I reformatted them to XFS through the Mandrake Control Center. It asked me if I wanted to save my changes to fstab and I said yes. It did and worked wonderfully until I had to shut my equipment down for a passing lightning storm. Now I reboot and can't get the drives to mount. I haven't changed a thing since shutting down. What do I need to do? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 20:50:01 up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.43, 0.41, 0.27 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:57, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello, How do you get an XFS drive mounted when it doesn't want to? I had two storage drive running rieserfs. I reformatted them to XFS through the Mandrake Control Center. It asked me if I wanted to save my changes to fstab and I said yes. It did and worked wonderfully until I had to shut my equipment down for a passing lightning storm. Now I reboot and can't get the drives to mount. I haven't changed a thing since shutting down. What do I need to do? What about creating a mount script and running it from /etc/rc.d/rc.local - so that if you DO have to reboot it will mount without a hitch...ay? -- Wed Aug 27 11:10:00 EST 2003 11:10:00 up 2 days, 56 min, 1 user, load average: 0.83, 0.85, 0.82 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God. -- M-5 Computer, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4731.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:57, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello, How do you get an XFS drive mounted when it doesn't want to? I had two storage drive running rieserfs. I reformatted them to XFS through the Mandrake Control Center. It asked me if I wanted to save my changes to fstab and I said yes. It did and worked wonderfully until I had to shut my equipment down for a passing lightning storm. Now I reboot and can't get the drives to mount. I haven't changed a thing since shutting down. What do I need to do? What about creating a mount script and running it from /etc/rc.d/rc.local - so that if you DO have to reboot it will mount without a hitch...ay? Well this is nice. The response gets to the list before the question. I can't mount it manually or automatically. I get wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1, or too many mounted file systems. Any further suggestions? I have a lot of data on those drives that I'd really like to keep. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 21:55:00 up 35 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:02, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Well this is nice. The response gets to the list before the question. I can't mount it manually or automatically. I get wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1, or too many mounted file systems. Any further suggestions? I have a lot of data on those drives that I'd really like to keep. So it's safe to assume that you've opened up a term and tried to use the regular mount command and options, ya? Have you tried using KDF to mount the volumes as well? (I haven't used XFS before...so I'm going blind here mate) -- Wed Aug 27 12:15:01 EST 2003 12:15:01 up 2 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.72, 0.75, 0.73 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * To err is human, to purr feline. To err is human, two curs canine. To err is human, to moo bovine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:02, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Well this is nice. The response gets to the list before the question. I can't mount it manually or automatically. I get wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1, or too many mounted file systems. Any further suggestions? I have a lot of data on those drives that I'd really like to keep. So it's safe to assume that you've opened up a term and tried to use the regular mount command and options, ya? Have you tried using KDF to mount the volumes as well? (I haven't used XFS before...so I'm going blind here mate) We all know why you're going blind, and it has nothing to do with XFS. ;-) Yes, I did mount -t xfs /dev/hdg1 /drive2. This is the correct drive and mount point. This combo worked for a long time using reiserfs. The pertinent lines from my fstab file are: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 What did diskdrake do wrong? I sure as heck didn't change anything. I let the expert (diskdrake) do it and it screwed up. I still haven't received my first post. Interesting... -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 22:20:00 up 1:00, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.13, 0.09 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted? Miark On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:27:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did mount -t xfs /dev/hdg1 /drive2. This is the correct drive and mount point. This combo worked for a long time using reiserfs. The pertinent lines from my fstab file are: /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 What did diskdrake do wrong? I sure as heck didn't change anything. I let the expert (diskdrake) do it and it screwed up. I still haven't received my first post. Interesting... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
Miark wrote: It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted? Miark There are no entries for either drive in mtab. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 22:50:00 up 1:30, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.10, 0.06 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS Mount
On Tuesday August 26 2003 09:54 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Miark wrote: It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already mounted? Miark There are no entries for either drive in mtab. mtab is generated from fstab, an shouldn't be fooled with Brant, try puttin your 1st CD in an check the partitions with the installers diskdrake. It could be that when you used diskdrake the changes were never made, or the partitions were never formatted for XFS, an they're still ReiserFS. Probly cause the partitions weren't unmounted. Also, with either ReiserFS or XFS, Civileme use to suggest a ext3 /boot partition. IME, it was/is good advice. IIRC, you're runnin cooker. FWIW, RC1 iso's look like they're comin to the mirrors today. The beta2 iso's are gone, and so far the RC1 md5sum file is posted. So maybe ya want to wait for those before fixin your partitions. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
