Ivan Arteaga wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> Ivan Arteaga wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a server running CentOS 4.7 and I want to add a new USB-HD for
>>> backup some data. I made the file system as ext3 with the command:
>>> /
>>> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1/
>>>
>>> After that I did add a new Volume Group and Logical Volume
>>> (/VolGrup01-LogVol01) /on that file system and mounted it as /backup. It
>>> worked fine but when I did reboot the server It wont mount /backup and I
>>> got the following error even after the system boots and I try to mount
>>> it manually:
>>>
>>> /mount: special device /dev/VolGrup01/LogVol01 does not exist/
>>>
>>> I will appreciate any comment or suggestion about the best way to get
>>> through this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I would *NOT* use LVM on a removable external drive.
>>
>> if you did a mkfs /dev/sdb1, you should
>>
>> # mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
>>
>> and skip LVM entirely.
>>
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> John,
>
> I did remove the LVM and mounted the file system i had in /dev/sdb1 as
> /backup, It works now...
>
> [r...@server]# mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
> [r...@mail ~]# df -kh
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1 459G 105M 436G 1% /backup
> [r...@server]#
>
> I cant restart the server now but I will have a maintenance window
> tomorrow so I will check after the reboot how it goes... I added it to
> /etc/fstab anyway:
>
> //dev/sdb1 /backup ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0/
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestion.
>
> --Ivan.
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It worked fine. Thanks again!
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